14 Feb
2011
14 Feb
'11
3:44 a.m.
On Feb 13, 2011, at 4:59 PM, Rudi Ahlers Rudi@SoftDux.com wrote:
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 11:35 PM, John R Pierce pierce@hogranch.com wrote:
On 02/13/11 1:21 PM, Rudi Ahlers wrote:
I'm trying to build a dense eSATA enclosure with say 16 or 24 drives :)
thats a stunningly bad way to go about it.
A) if you want JBOD, use a SAS/SATA enclosure with a SAS host card, as SATA doesn't support multichannel multiplexing.
mmm, I didn't think of this :)
Dell has the MD1120 which is a 24 bay 2.5" SAS/SATA enclosure. I think it goes for $3000 plus cost of disk drives.
If you want to go cheaper I believe Supermicro makes a 16 drive chassis that is meant for a server, but can be made into an external enclosure, or an iSCSI/NFS/CIFS storage server.
-Ross