People trying to hack together systems might want to look at the HP DL320s http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/ss/WF05a/15351-241434-241475-241475 -f79-3232017.html
12 drive bays, Intel Woodcrest, SAS (and SATA) controller. If you snoop around, you might be able to find drive carriers on eBay or elsewhere (*cough* search "HP drive sleds" "HP drive carriers") $3k for the chassis. A mini thumper. Though I'm not sure if Solaris supports the Smart Array controller. Rob -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of mike Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 1:17 PM To: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: External drive enclosures + Sun I'm dying here - does anyone know when or even if they will support these? I had this whole setup planned out but it requires eSATA + port multipliers. I want to use ZFS, but currently cannot in that fashion. I'd still have to buy some [more expensive, noisier, bulky internal drive] solution for ZFS. Unless anyone has other ideas. I'm looking to run a 5-10 drive system (with easy ability to expand) in my home office; not in a datacenter. Even opening up to iSCSI seems to not get me much - there aren't any SOHO type NAS enclosures that act as iSCSI targets. There are however handfuls of eSATA based 4, 5, and 10 drive enclosures perfect for this... but all require the port multiplier support. On 1/22/07, Frank Cusack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Unfortunately, Solaris does not support SATA port multipliers (yet) so > I think you're pretty limited in how many esata drives you can connect. _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
