[OpenIndiana-discuss] Expanding storage with JBOD

[David Scharbach]

How does a 5 drive bay work over sas?  Does it have an internal expander for the 5th drive??

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David Scharbach
Mine Senior Electrical Engineer
PCS Cory Division

> On Jan 3, 2014, at 11:53 AM, Saso Kiselkov <skiselkov.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 1/3/14, 5:52 PM, Roman Naumenko wrote:
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> On 1/3/14, 5:43 PM, Roman Naumenko wrote:
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>>> On 1/3/14, 3:14 PM, Roman Naumenko wrote:
>>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>>>> Overall I think you're trying to save money on entirely the
>>>>>>> wrong
>>>>>>> things. Get a few good high-capacity disks and a low-power
>>>>>>> enclosure
>>>>>>> and don't worry about buying a SAS HBA (or if you do, buy one
>>>>>>> which
>>>>>>> doesn't limit you to 2TB per drive).
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Ok, lets run the numbers for icybox
>>>>>> http://www.raidsonic.de/data/datasheet/raidon/EN/datasheet_iS2880_e.pdf
>>>>>> I'll probably need this model, iS2880-8S-U5D - 245$ on amazon.
>>>>> 
>>>>> What do 8x 2.5'' spindles give you that 5x 3.5'' don't? Do you
>>>>> need
>>>>> the extra performance?
>>>> 
>>>> That was only the model with 8 drives on that website.
>>>> I don't think there there are descent enclosures with >=8 disks and
>>>> <400$
>>> 
>>> You do realize there's a difference between 2.5'' and 3.5'' drives,
>>> right?
>> 
>> I'm with both hands for 3.5
>> But where to put them?! Nothing descent even closer available that would fit $1000 target.
> 
> What's the problem with this thing:
> http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-036-BT
> 
> -- 
> Saso
> 
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