On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 8:58 PM, matthew patton <patto...@yahoo.com> wrote: > what with the home NAS conversations, what's the trick to buy a J4500 without > any drives? SUN like every other "enterprise" storage vendor thinks it's ok > to rape their customers and I for one, am not interested in paying 10x for a > silly SATA hard drive.
Another solution, for a true DIY x4500: BackBlaze has schematics for the 45 drive chassis that they designed available on their website. http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage/ Someone brought it up on the list a few months ago (which is how I know about it) and there was some interesting discussion at that time. There's no way I would use something like this for most installs, but there is definitely some use. Now that opensolaris supports sata pmp, you could use a similar chassis for a zfs pool. -B -- Brandon High : bh...@freaks.com For sale: One moral compass, never used. _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
