Hi,For a good case I found the Cooler Master 310 and 3 drive carriers (3x 5.25" for 4x 3.5") This has allowed me to put 12 HDD in it with space for another carrier with the removal of the front panel.
Giving space of 16 drives. Or 14 without the front panel removal.I have been looking at 8 sata drive carrier to 2 x esata. Through the costs of these are high. For software I have been looking at is the use of opensolaris and ZFS or *bsd and ZFS fuse.
From Kim On 10/02/2008, at 1:29 AM, Chris Hellyar wrote:
4Tb in a standard PC case is quite do-able these days, just stripe four1Tb drives, or use 5 of them would give you raid 5. A decent sized standard PC case would give you space for 5 or sixdrives. My server case I got from Edge ages ago has space for 10 drivesand two power supplies. As for cost, cheap if you want cheap. What level of performance do you want? If it's just for archival orfile and print storage for a small number of users SATA would fine, andquite cheap. Probably get it onto the network as a NAS box for around the $2500 mark. If it's for a network of 500 users and will have transactional data on it, be prepared to spend $15-30k. :-). Cheers, Me. On Sat, 2008-02-09 at 22:21 +1300, Don Gould wrote:What do people recommend for setting up 4 to 8 TB of disk space? I want to be able to grow it as I need more space. I want to be able to take out old disks and put in bigger ones.Can anyone recommend a chassis to hold the disks that doesn't cost $1000just for the box? What disks does one use these days ESATA? Cheers Don
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