or there is: http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage/
45 discs, 67 TB, under US$8k, in one box on SATA port multipliers. 50% over the cost of raw drives. I don't suppose blazing speed was their primary goal, but security was up there. Kevin. On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 16:26 +1000, [email protected] wrote: > >>>>> "Amos" == Amos Shapira <[email protected]> writes: > > Amos> Is there another economical (and sane, speed-wise) way to get > Amos> lots of disks on these system's bus? > > > You could put in a couple of eSATA controllers and use boxes of disks > with SATA port multipliers in them. We're doing that; you have to > watch which port multiplier you use as some are a bit slow, but apart > from that it's an easy way to get lots of disc on a machine with just > a couple of spare PCI slots. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
