hardware for home use large storage

[Jonathan]

On 2/8/2010 12:01 AM, Dan Langille wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm thinking of 8x1TB (or larger) SATA drives. I've found a case[2] with
> hot-swap bays[3], that seems interesting. I haven't looked at power
> supplies, but given that number of drives, I expect something beefy with
> a decent reputation is called for.

I have a system with two of these [1] and an 8 port LSI SAS card that 
runs fine for me.  I run an 8 drive ZFS array off the LSI card and then 
have 2 drives mirrored off the motherboard SATA ports for booting with 
ZFS.  Hotswap works fine for me as well with this hardware.

Jonathan

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