On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 08:45:12AM -0500, Dan Langille wrote: > 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?
http://www.supermicro.com/products/chassis/mobileRack/ I'd recommend staying away from anything with SAF-TE (for SCSI) or SES2 (for SAS or SATA) however. At least with regards to SCSI, I've seen quite a few of the QLogic SAF-TE chips get in the way of drive failures and start changing SCSI IDs of all the disks (yes you read that right) on the bus willy-nilly. That means that basically the CSE-M34T or CSE-M35T-1 would be good choices. Yes they come in Black. -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | _______________________________________________ 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"
