MD1200 is a great bet then. Other options -- SuperMicro has lots:
http://www.supermicro.com/products/chassis/2U/?chs=216 Quanta: http://www.quantaqct.com/Product/Rack-Systems/Rackgo-X/JBODs/JBR-p247c77c86c88c92 On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 01:06:09PM +0000, Graham Johnston wrote: > I am primarily wanting something that will act like a DELL MD1200, > SAS connected to a server, then run a clustered filesystem on the > server(s) which will serve up NFS or iSCSI to client devices. > > Graham Johnston > Network Planner > Westman Communications Group > 204.717.2829 > johnst...@westmancom.com > think green; don't print this email. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jameson, Daniel [mailto:daniel.jame...@tdstelecom.com] > Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2015 3:11 PM > To: Ray Van Dolson; Graham Johnston > Cc: 'nanog@nanog.org' > Subject: RE: SAS Drive Enclosure > > What are you thinking for connectivity, Ethernet, FiberChannel, > Infiniband ... Building *Storage Nodes* or in need of just drive > connectivity? > > > -----Original Message----- > From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Ray Van Dolson > Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2015 2:53 PM > To: Graham Johnston > Cc: 'nanog@nanog.org' > Subject: Re: SAS Drive Enclosure > > On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 07:19:59PM +0000, Graham Johnston wrote: > > I am looking for information about SAS drive enclosures, is there a > > list like NANOG that covers that area of IT? > > > > I am specifically looking for an enclosure that can handle 12 or more > > drives, I am looking to create a clustered file system between > > multiple servers and would like to avoid a drive enclosure that only > > works with a very small number of approved drives. I am looking to > > support traditional HDDs as well as SSDs. > > There were discussions at some point about setting up a > storage-centric list via SNIA or something else fairly 'neutral'. > Never really materialized, however. > > Lists like lopsa-tech and the LISA/USENIX SAGE list are general > enough you might get some good responses. > > WRT your question, we've had good luck with the Dell MD1200 line of > JBODs. > > Ray