On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 8:58 PM, matthew patton <patto...@yahoo.com> wrote: > what with the home NAS conversations, what's the trick to buy a J4500 without > any drives? SUN like every other "enterprise" storage vendor thinks it's ok > to rape their customers and I for one, am not interested in paying 10x for a > silly SATA hard drive.
To get the topic back to the original question... There are Supermicro chassis that you can use. This one holds 36 drives, 24 front and 12 rear: http://www.supermicro.com/products/chassis/4U/847/SC847E16-R1400.cfm ($1800) This one holds "only" 24 drives: http://www.supermicro.com/products/chassis/4U/846/SC846TQ-R900.cfm ($950) Either of those with the CSE-PTJBOD-CB1 ($30), CBL-0166L ($40) and CBL-0167L($40) parts will be a monster JBOD. That being said, we used to get Dell JBODs at a previous job, and I remember the 12 drive shelves being cheap - cheaper than buying bare drives. This was 8 years ago, so I'm not sure if they're discounting their drives as much. -B -- Brandon High : bh...@freaks.com Mistakes are often the stepping stones to utter failure. _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
