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

[Harry Putnam]

Harry Putnam <reader at newsguy.com> writes:

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Lots of good input here. 

Can anyone tell me if it is better to have a cage with backplane.

If backplane is just some raid rigamorole... probably useless for this

But would a general sata backplane be any advantage?

Far as I know this server should handle 8 hdd alright since I've been
told that the 8 SAS ports can serve as sata ... that should give me a
total capability of 12 sata ports.

I guess I would assume the power unit is up to that task... can anyone
comment on that?