On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 10:39:25AM +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: > > Dear lazyweb, > > I'm looking for a cheap 2U box which can take a lot of hotplug SATA drives > and run OpenSolaris with zfs. Remote management integrated a big plus.
So far FreeNAS with zfs+ZRAID (almost stable) looks best. Screw OpenSolaris. > So far Fujitsu-Siemens Econel looks > like my best bet (but can only take 6 SATA or SAS drives). > > Anything cheap and good you're recommending? Paul Jimenez suggested http://supermicro.com/products/chassis/2U/?chs=826 and http://supermicro.com/products/nfo/2_5HDD.cfm which do look good indeed. 2.5" is probably more future-proof, provided you start small, and then SSD in 2-3 years. Thanks, lazyweb. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE
