On Mon, 8 Feb 2010, Dan Langille wrote: DL> I'm looking at creating a large home use storage machine. Budget is a DL> concern, but size and reliability are also a priority. Noise is also a DL> concern, since this will be at home, in the basement. That, and cost, DL> pretty much rules out a commercial case, such as a 3U case. It would be DL> nice, but it greatly inflates the budget. This pretty much restricts me to DL> a tower case.
[snip] We use the following at work, but it's still pretty cheap and pretty silent: Chieftec WH-02B-B (9x5.25 bays) filled with 2 x Supermicro CSE-MT35T http://www.supermicro.nl/products/accessories/mobilerack/CSE-M35T-1.cfm for regular storage, 2 x raidz1 1 x Promise SuperSwap 1600 http://www.promise.com/product/product_detail_eng.asp?product_id=169 for changeable external backups and still have 2 5.25 bays for anything interesting ;-) other parts are regular SocketAM2+ motherboard, Athlon X4, 8G ram, FreeBSD/amd64 -- Sincerely, D.Marck [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN] [ FreeBSD committer: [email protected] ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Dmitry Morozovsky --- D.Marck --- Wild Woozle --- [email protected] *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
