[OpenIndiana-discuss] Cram more drives into an HP xw8600

[Nikola M.]

On 07/23/14 08:34 PM, Philip Robar wrote:
> If you don't mind a mini rack sitting outside of your case this is an
> inexpensive ($30) option:
>
> http://www.sansdigital.com/storage-gadgets/hddrack5.html
Huh, I think that is for mounting Inside the case , not outside,
and to use same power supply from the case.

It would be not practical to mount anything outside the case, since you 
need as much SATA cables from the controller, as drives you have. And 
using SATA extenders is NOT advisable, due to unknown affects that chips 
inside extender have on data flow (unless it is all SAS drives because 
SAS is another thing because it is routable).

Nonetheless, having external drives in tower would need some case
and that brings us back to mounting drives in (bigger) PC case as better 
solution.

nikolam