Supermicro may bit a bit overkill for the home server :) Although I have considered it for myself at home… We used them where I used to work and they are pretty nice for the money.
For myself, I opted to go with the Norco 4220, a Tyan MB with an integral LSI-2008 based HBA, LSI based intel SAS expander card, 16GB of ECC, a low end xeon and 13 3TB cheap seagate HDDs. This setup allows for 20 hot swap bays connected to the SAS card, 2 2.5” SSDs connected to the MB via SATA for cache/zil and a slim optical drive with a spare SAS channel that I could use to connect to an external JBOD enclosure if needed. My drives have seen a maximum temp of 39C and that is when doing a full scrub with the server in my utility room in winter (furnace is on, heats the room up). I agree that cheap HDDs suck, I have returned 3 of them in a little over a year but ZFS and SMART are awesome at detecting early troubles. Just had another bark at me for uncorrectable sector errors. Resilvering my RaidZ2 production array does take a long time, but I have a RaidZ1 backup array so I would have to lose 5 of 13 drives at the same time to affect all my data. Nice part is I can still add 7 more drives to the case if needed. I would stay away from Adaptec only because I have had a number of issues with compatibility with my Adaptec 5805 card. Great product, limited support for some systems. I have been using the LSI HBA products for a while now and they seem to work very well and are typically a cheaper option with excellent OS support. The combo of a SAS-2008 HBA and expander gives you a total of 6 useable SAS channels. Cheers, Dave On Jan 2, 2014, at 8:49 AM, Saso Kiselkov <skiselkov...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 1/2/14, 2:28 AM, Roman Naumenko wrote: >> cjt said the following, on 01-01-14 7:14 PM: >>> On 01/01/2014 04:23 PM, Roman Naumenko wrote: >>>> Saso Kiselkov said the following, on 01-01-14 4:30 PM: >>>>> On 1/1/14, 9:11 PM, Roman Naumenko wrote: >>>>>> Hello, >>>>>> >>>>>> Looking for cheap way of expanding current home storage server running >>>>>> on openindiana 151_a5. >>>>>> jbod (12 bay are 400$) with SFF-8088 is most cost-effective. >>>>>> >>>>>> Now the question what card with 8088 to stick in the server. Will this >>>>>> one work? http://www.adaptec.com/en-us/support/sas/sas/asc-1045 >>>>>> Is there any similar listed on HCL here >>>>>> http://wiki.openindiana.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=4883876? >>>>> My best experience is with stuff from LSI, mainly the LSI SAS >>>>> 2008-derived products such as the LSI 9200-8e, HP SC08e, Dell 6Gbps SAS >>>>> HBA, etc. >>>>> http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=dhs&cs=19&sku=342-0910 >>>>> >>>>> >>>> I'll probably use LSI SAS3801E, it's listed as compatible on HCL and >>>> priced in 80-150 range on ebay. >>>> >>>> --Roman >>> as long as you don't want to use drives bigger than 2GB ... >> I don't know if even 2TB will fill fast enough to justifying any >> "investment" into storage expansion. >> Speaking about storage expansion, even HBA cards are dirt cheap, pricing >> on enclosures with integrated SAS expander is just nuts. Can't figure >> out how to add 8-12 disks externally to the storage server without >> paying for this 2x cost of the server itself. > > What's your budget? A Supermicro SC826-based enclosure can be had for > under a thousand bucks and you can set it up as a JBOD easily (get a > power distribution board for it - Supermicro sells those too). Comes > with a dual-path expander, dual PSUs and a nice rack-mountable with rack > rails - kind of the equivalent of something like an HP MSA 60 or Dell > MD1200, only much cheaper. > > If you're looking to grow in the future, definitely have a look at > SC837E26-RJBOD1 and SC847E26-RJBOD1 - these are pre-assembled > 36/45-drive JBODs and they cost a lot less per drive (either box can be > had for around $2k). Given that quality 3TB NL-SAS drives cost around > $250-300 a piece (and I recommend you buy good drives; don't cheap out > on SATA if you want performance, reliability and peaceful sleep at > night), the cost of the enclosure will, in the end, be a drop in a > bucket in your overall investment. > > Cheers, > -- > Saso > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss