On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 4:50 PM, Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> wrote:
> > Can anyone tell me if it is better to have a cage with backplane. > If backplane is just some raid rigamorole... probably useless for this > But would a general sata backplane be any advantage? > For personal use it's mostly a matter of convenience. If you're not going to be changing drives on a regular basis and/or you don't need the continuous uptime that hot swapping gives you then I'd say save the money. Personally, I want one of the tray less x in y bays just because I think that they look cool. (I lust for this case, but am too cheap to replace the used server I recently purchased on eBay for a great price with a new mini-ITX motherboard, CPU, ECC memory and the case: http://www.u-nas.com/cases.html) I guess I would assume the power unit is up to that task... can anyone > comment on that? There are web apps that will help you figure this out. Try searching on "power supply calculator." Phil _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
