Re: [silk] [FoRK] looking for hardware for a ~10 TByte storage appliance

2009-01-22 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 09:17:12AM -0600, Paul Jimenez wrote: > Eugen Leitl wrote: > > Paul Jimenez suggested http://supermicro.com/products/chassis/2U/?chs=826 > > and http://supermicro.com/products/nfo/2_5HDD.cfm which do look > > good indeed. 2.5" is probably more future-proof, provided you > >

Re: [silk] [FoRK] looking for hardware for a ~10 TByte storage appliance

2009-01-21 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Paul Jimenez [21/01/09 09:03 -0600]: WRT Remote Management, they've got some IPMI cards that work somewhat reasonably. WRT remote management this is just beautiful - http://www.realweasel.com/intro.html

Re: [silk] [FoRK] looking for hardware for a ~10 TByte storage appliance

2009-01-21 Thread Paul Jimenez
I've had good luck with supermicro whitebox stuff in the past; they've certainly got much higher density stuff than just 6 drives/2U! For 3.5" drives see: http://supermicro.com/products/chassis/2U/?chs=826 (12 drives in 2U) For 2.5" drives see: http://supermicro.com/products/nfo/2_5HDD.cfm (24 d