[olug] RAID chassis recommendations

[Steven Busby]

http://www.mwave.com/mwave/skusearch_v3.asp?scriteria=BA40079

But you have to provide your own MB/PS/Drives...


Buz


On 7/10/12 12:45 PM, "Obi-Wan" <obiwan at jedi.com> wrote:

>I need a new drive array to use in my server rack at home.
>Minimum requirements:
>  * 2U tall
>  * holds at least 8 hot-swap SATA drives
>  * has at least 2 GigE NICs
>  * external USB3 is a plus, but not required
>
>I plan to run openfiler (or similar) on this.  It will initially be my
>backup array for all the machines in my house, but may eventually also
>host my (in-house) shared media from a different RAID set in the same
>chassis (hence the 8 drives).
>
>Anybody got any recommendations?  Quickly browsing NewEgg shows the
>cheapest matching chassis is $1100 (diskless), which seems a lot more
>expensive than I was expecting.
>
>If any of you have any recommendations on models, or even retailers,
>I'm all ears.
>
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