John,
Thanks for the tips. I'll look at those URLs. I appreciate it! --- Dan On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 10:25 AM, Eric Olsen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Dan, > > If it's something you're interested in, I have an old Cooler Master > Stacker 810 tower case I purchased a while back thinking I'd be expanding > my storage at home. It has 11x5.25" bays (12 if you mod it, the top bay is > used by the power/reset and USB/Audio ports, I had considered moving them > to the top if I really needed the extra space), and I purchased a 3x5.25" > to 5x3.5" hot-swap drive bay (fits 5 hot-swap 3.5" disks into 3 5.25" > bays), and figured I'd get more as I needed them. I never grew past the 5 > drives (I think it was more like 7 or 8, I had a couple/few internal), and > now have greatly simplified to a 4-bay NAS (Netgear ReadyNAS). If you're > interested, it takes up to a full-ATX form factor motherboard (and is > designed to switch to BTX if desired), up to two power supplies (I don't > think it's for redundancy, I think it was more to power additional drives, > I never needed it since I didn't really go more than the 8 drives in it). > I've had it up on KSL for $100 (obo) for a while and haven't had much > interest, so you're welcome to name your price and I'd probably take it. > > Thanks, > Eric Olsen > > On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 3:00 AM, Dan Egli <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hey People, >> >> >> >> I'm hoping someone can give a good recommendation for a JBOD case. There's >> quite a few of them out there and I don't want to risk getting a case that >> SOUNDS good but has issues after it's purchased, if I can avoid it. >> Besides >> the standard requirements (eSATA connection, Universal Power Supply >> [100-220v, 50-60Hz]), it should be HotSwap capable, and hold at least 9 >> drives, with 12 being preferable. I really don't want to buy a case with >> 20+ bays when I'll not use more than 12, obviously. >> >> >> >> Any recommendations are welcome, especially if there's a URL where I can >> see a spec sheet on it (or even a URL to newegg or similar where the basic >> specs are laid out). >> >> >> >> Thanks folks! >> --- Dan >> >> /* >> PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net >> Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug >> Don't fear the penguin. >> */ >> > > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
