>>>>> "Rudy" == Rudy Zijlstra <rudy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Rudy> Op 15-09-2020 om 04:12 schreef John Stoffel:
Brian> For more drives, you can use one of those external drive shelf
Brian> boxes. I currently have the HP M6710 I got off eBay with all
Brian> caddies for about $100, which can house 24 2.5 hard drives in a
Brian> 2U chassis and I've used an LSI 9201-16e to access it (both
Brian> HBAs flashed to 20.00.07 or something like that). I've already
Brian> tested it and it works great, though a bit loud on the fans
Brian> when powering on. My understanding is also if you have more
Brian> than one of these shelves you can daisy chain them via their
Brian> ports SAS card -> Shelf 1 -> Shelf 2, etc, even cycling back to
Brian> the SAS card for multi-path support (which is at the time over
Brian> my head). My plan for it is to put in my network closet once I
Brian> get it cleaned out and cabling ran better to provide
Brian> whole-house NAS storage. I think there is also an M6720 model
Brian> for 24 3.5 drives in a 4U chassis. There is also NetApp shelf
Brian> I was looking at but from reading looks like it uses a QSFP
Brian> connector on it's IOM, and the cables that converted from
Brian> SFF-8088 were quite expensive.
Rudy> I'd take a look at HP D2600
Looks like it would be too loud for a home office, with those small
fans. And probably overkill for my needs. But thank you for pointing
this out!
