On Wed, February 3, 2010 17:02, Brandon High wrote: > 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. > > Another solution, for a true DIY x4500: BackBlaze has schematics for > the 45 drive chassis that they designed available on their website. > http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage/
I'm just coming up on upgrading my 800GB pool to 1.2TB. I know some home NAS setups with 10 times my capacity, but I don't know how much data they actually have on them. And 10 times my capacity actually fits in my current chassis with modern drives; I'm just still using the 400GB drives I put in originally, and have two more sitting around for the upgrade I'm heading towards. Which is to say that 45 drives is really quite a lot for a HOME NAS. Particularly when you then think about backing up that data. -- David Dyer-Bennet, d...@dd-b.net; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
