What are you thinking for connectivity, Ethernet, FiberChannel, Infiniband ... Building *Storage Nodes* or in need of just drive connectivity?
-----Original Message----- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Ray Van Dolson Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2015 2:53 PM To: Graham Johnston Cc: 'nanog@nanog.org' Subject: Re: SAS Drive Enclosure On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 07:19:59PM +0000, Graham Johnston wrote: > I am looking for information about SAS drive enclosures, is there a > list like NANOG that covers that area of IT? > > I am specifically looking for an enclosure that can handle 12 or more > drives, I am looking to create a clustered file system between > multiple servers and would like to avoid a drive enclosure that only > works with a very small number of approved drives. I am looking to > support traditional HDDs as well as SSDs. There were discussions at some point about setting up a storage-centric list via SNIA or something else fairly 'neutral'. Never really materialized, however. Lists like lopsa-tech and the LISA/USENIX SAGE list are general enough you might get some good responses. WRT your question, we've had good luck with the Dell MD1200 line of JBODs. Ray
