hardware for home use large storage

[Dan Langille]

On Tue, February 9, 2010 7:51 am, Tom Evans wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 6:15 AM, Charles Sprickman <spork at 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.
>> Â That whole combo works great. Â 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?


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