[OpenIndiana-discuss] Expanding storage with JBOD

[Roman Naumenko]

David Scharbach said the following, on 02-01-14 1:53 PM:
> Supermicro may bit a bit overkill for the home server :)  Although I have considered it for myself at home…  We used them where I used to work and they are pretty nice for the money.
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> For myself, I opted to go with the Norco 4220, a Tyan MB with an integral LSI-2008 based HBA, LSI based intel SAS expander card, 16GB of ECC, a low end xeon and 13 3TB cheap seagate HDDs.  This setup allows for 20 hot swap bays connected to the SAS card, 2 2.5” SSDs connected to the MB via SATA for cache/zil and a slim optical drive with a spare SAS channel that I could use to connect to an external JBOD enclosure if needed.  My drives have seen a maximum temp of 39C and that is when doing a full scrub with the server in my utility room in winter (furnace is on, heats the room up).
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> I agree that cheap HDDs suck, I have returned 3 of them in a little over a year but ZFS and SMART are awesome at detecting early troubles.  Just had another bark at me for uncorrectable sector errors.  Resilvering my RaidZ2 production array does take a long time, but I have a RaidZ1 backup array so I would have to lose 5 of 13 drives at the same time to affect all my data.  Nice part is I can still add 7 more drives to the case if needed.
There are number of option if you want to assemble something like a 
storage server, but it's all limited if you want to connect a JBOD to an 
existing server.
By limited I mean the cost going to be >= original equipment.

Which card did you use by the way?

Roman