John Enok Vollestad wrote: > For those interested: > > One nice thing with the supermicro boxes is the ability to daicy-chain > with SAS-extenders. The Areca controller also have the opportunity to > online increase the size of raid-sets and volumes in combination with > raid 6, global hotspare, up to 128 disks and good performance. > Combined we can add shelfs and disks as needed. > > One may put a motherboard in or one can use it just as a shelf. There > are contacts for the SAS-extenders in the back of the box. > http://www.supermicro.com/products/chassis/3U/836/SC836E2-R800V.cfm I just noticed that the backplane needed for cascading of chassis limits the disktype to SAS. This makes the cost much higher than SATA2.
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