[OpenIndiana-discuss] Expanding storage with JBOD

[Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)]

> From: Roman Naumenko [mailto:roman at naumenko.ca]
> 
> I don't know if even 2TB will fill fast enough to justifying any "investment"
> into storage expansion.

I don't get that comment.


> Speaking about storage expansion, even HBA cards are dirt cheap, pricing on
> enclosures with integrated SAS expander is just nuts. Can't figure out how to
> add 8-12 disks externally to the storage server without paying for this 2x cost
> of the server itself.

Depends how much you paid for the server itself.  ;-)  But that's kind of irrelevant.  Often, the storage *is* more expensive than the rest of the server.  Depends on how much storage you're adding.  There's a cost for the HBA, for the drive bay, and then a cost for the disks, multiplied by the number of disks.  So the disks add up quickly.

I'm a fan of Sans Digital products for the price.  And I'm a fan of using the disks that they recommend.