I was asking this same question in IRC a few days ago. The answer from several different people was SuperMicro passive drive bays. I think that's these products:
http://www.supermicro.com/products/nfo/storage.cfm I imagine you could set up individual drive master-slave sets with Hammer and effectively duplicate whole disks in case of drive failure, without going to actual hardware RAID. However! I have not actually tried this, so please be careful with your purchasing decisions based on the testimony of some idiot on a mailing list. (i.e. me) On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 12:30 AM, Predrag Punosevac <[email protected]>wrote: > My small LAB is looking to acquire two file servers in the very near > future. I am not much of a storage guy so I am soliciting opinion from > this community as the new file servers are likely to be running > DragonFly BSD for obvious reason (Hammer). > > One file server should be about 20TB and used by a group of about 20-30 > users. Another should be about 10-12 TB with no more than 10 users. > Following earlier advises I am thinking of setting up hardware RAID > based on one of LSI devices. We are in data mining business so moving > large amounts of data in particular via NFS is must for us. > > Are there any strong opinions? I was browsing little bit Newegg and I > see bunch of inexpensive Synology and Buffalo network storage systems. I > have mostly experience with Supermicro. Is there a significant > difference in the quality between those manufacturers? > > Most Kind Regards, > Predrag >
