How does a 5 drive bay work over sas? Does it have an internal expander for the 5th drive??
---------------------------------- David Scharbach Mine Senior Electrical Engineer PCS Cory Division > On Jan 3, 2014, at 11:53 AM, Saso Kiselkov <skiselkov...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 1/3/14, 5:52 PM, Roman Naumenko wrote: >> ----- Original Message ----- >>>> On 1/3/14, 5:43 PM, Roman Naumenko wrote: >>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>>>> On 1/3/14, 3:14 PM, Roman Naumenko wrote: >>>>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>>>>> Overall I think you're trying to save money on entirely the >>>>>>> wrong >>>>>>> things. Get a few good high-capacity disks and a low-power >>>>>>> enclosure >>>>>>> and don't worry about buying a SAS HBA (or if you do, buy one >>>>>>> which >>>>>>> doesn't limit you to 2TB per drive). >>>>>> >>>>>> Ok, lets run the numbers for icybox >>>>>> http://www.raidsonic.de/data/datasheet/raidon/EN/datasheet_iS2880_e.pdf >>>>>> I'll probably need this model, iS2880-8S-U5D - 245$ on amazon. >>>>> >>>>> What do 8x 2.5'' spindles give you that 5x 3.5'' don't? Do you >>>>> need >>>>> the extra performance? >>>> >>>> That was only the model with 8 drives on that website. >>>> I don't think there there are descent enclosures with >=8 disks and >>>> <400$ >>> >>> You do realize there's a difference between 2.5'' and 3.5'' drives, >>> right? >> >> I'm with both hands for 3.5 >> But where to put them?! Nothing descent even closer available that would fit >> $1000 target. > > What's the problem with this thing: > http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-036-BT > > -- > 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