On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 6:15 AM, Charles Sprickman <sp...@bway.net> wrote: > .... > Here's the list: > > http://secure.newegg.com/WishList/PublicWishDetail.aspx?WishListNumber=8441629 > > Just over $1K, and I've got 4 nice drives, ECC memory, and a server board. > Going with the celeron saved a ton of cash with no impact on ZFS that I can > discern, and again, going with a cheap tower case slashed the cost as well. > That whole combo works great. Now when I use up those 6 SATA ports, I > don't know how to get more cheaply, but I'll worry about that later... > > Charles >
As long as those SATA ports are AHCI compliant, should work quite nicely with a SiI port multiplier. Failing that, a simple 2 port SiI PCI-E SATA card (supported by siis(4) driver) + 2 x SiI port multiplier would give you 10 extra SATA ports. My SiI PCI-E card cost £15, and the PM about £50, so it is about £13/port, or ~$20/port. Probably can get the components cheaper in the US actually. I also found some nice simple drive racks for £20/4 drives - not completely hotswappable, but much easier to replace than screwed into the case. Cheers Tom _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"