> 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. >
I am using an SC846xxx for a project here at work. The hardware consists of an ASUS server-level motherboard with 2 quad-core Xeons, 8GB of RAM, an LSI PCI-e SAS/SATA card, and 24 1.5TB HD, all in one of these cases. The drives are in one pool with 3x 7+1 raid-z sets. Raw is 32TB, usable is about 24TB. Total price was about $6000. (It'd be about $800 less now that 1.5TB drives have dropped in price.) I built it for disk to disk backups. Right now, I'm using backuppc for backing up the OS'es of our DB servers and such, and rsync and snapshots for the databases themselves. I get about 50MB/sec read and write speeds, but I think that's because the version of the SC846 I got has a single backplane for the SAS/SATA drives, and one connector to the LSI card. Of course, for what I'm doing, that's fine. Paul Oh, I think the SC846 I got was about $1100. http://www.cdw.com/shop/search/results.aspx?key=sc846&searchscope=All&sr=1&Find+it.x=0&Find+it.y=0 _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
