On Sep 29, 2009, at 2:41 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote:
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 06:04:01PM -0400, Thomas Burgess wrote:
personally i like this case:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811219021
it's got 20 hot swap bays, and it's surprisingly well built. For
the money,
it's an amazing deal.
You don't like http://www.supermicro.com/products/nfo/chassis_storage.cfm
?
I must admit I don't have a price list of these.
When running that many hard drives I would insist on redundant
power supplies, and server motherboards with ECC memory. Unless
it's for home use, where a downtime of days or weeks is not critical.
I hadn't thought of going that way because I was looking for at least
a somewhat pre-packaged system, but another posted pointed out how
many more drives I could get by choosing case/motherboard separately.
I agree, with this much trouble it doesn't make sense to settle for
fewer drive slots than I can get.
I agree completely with the ECC. It's for home use, so the power
supply issue isn't huge (though if it's possible that's a plus). My
concern with this particular option is noise. It will be in a closet,
but one with louvered doors right off a room where people watch TV.
Anything particularly loud would be an issue. The comments on Newegg
make this sound pretty loud. Have you tried one outside of a server
room environment?
Thanks,
Ware
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