You described it as "small office" so I wonder how much total storage you would be needing.
Start with a cheap bare chassis. Add a good power supply and enough good fans. Use fan filters unless it is going into a room that already has air filtration. Give it clean power even if that means adding a $50 ups. I believe that much is needed for any electronics and drives you select. Matthew Rubenstein wrote: > How about a *cheap* enclosure for 8-12 3.5" HDs for recording all audio >for a small office Asterisk? Just the chassis, (reliable) power supply, >and probably a USB hub for a dozen IDE-HD/USB cables? Cheap IDE drives >with slow transfer/access times are just fine, run redundant as USB >drives (maybe a SW RAID) on the Linux host running Asterisk off its >internal IDEs. Cheap, cheap, cheap, redundant storage and drives. >Where's the cheapest chassis + reliable power supply for the storage >dump? > > >On Sun, 2007-02-04 at 08:35 +0100, Noc Phibee wrote: > > >>Hi >> >>anyone know a good rack enclosure for create a small asterisk server ? >> >>Mini-itx with 4/6 ethernet switch port ... >> >>thanks for your help >> >>_______________________________________________ >>--Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- >> >>asterisk-biz mailing list >>To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: >> http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz >> >> _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
