On Tue, February 9, 2010 7:51 am, Tom Evans wrote: > On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 6:15 AM, Charles Sprickman <sp...@bway.net> wrote: >> .... >> Here's the list: >> >> http://secure.newegg.com/WishList/PublicWishDetail.aspx?WishListNumber=8441629 >> >> Just over $1K, and I've got 4 nice drives, ECC memory, and a server >> board. >> Going with the celeron saved a ton of cash with no impact on ZFS that I >> can >> discern, and again, going with a cheap tower case slashed the cost as >> well. >>  That whole combo works great.  Now when I use up those 6 SATA ports, >> I >> don't know how to get more cheaply, but I'll worry about that later... >> >> Charles >> > > As long as those SATA ports are AHCI compliant, should work quite > nicely with a SiI port multiplier. Failing that, a simple 2 port SiI > PCI-E SATA card (supported by siis(4) driver) + 2 x SiI port > multiplier would give you 10 extra SATA ports. > > My SiI PCI-E card cost £15, and the PM about £50, so it is about > £13/port, or ~$20/port. Probably can get the components cheaper in the > US actually. I also found some nice simple drive racks for £20/4 > drives - not completely hotswappable, but much easier to replace than > screwed into the case.
Now there's an idea. Drive racks? Got a URL? -- Dan Langille -- http://langille.org/ _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
