A couple of weeks ago I spent time reacquainting myself with this mini-SAS stuff. I've seem a couple of cards with 2 to 4 ports but nothing with the density of that HighPoint Rocket 750. That puppy is over $1200 USD though (I checked on the UK vendor SCAN).
Its that eSATA or USB 3.0 port that is impossible to find. I thought there was an offering from Areca or Avago on NewEgg but I don't see it now. Highpoint has an
8 port card for $87 but no external connections for external access. Maybe such a thing is a unicorn?
I don't see how you can do a high density build (over 4 drives) for under $500.
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Keith C. Perry, MS E.E.
From: "Rich Freeman" <r-plug@thefreemanclan.net>
To: "Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List" <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2014 9:23:28 AM
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Restructuring home network and building a storage server
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 8:24 AM, Keith C. Perry
<kperry@daotechnologies.com> wrote:
What I haven't been able to find is a cheap multi-bay disk chassis for home
use. Athena power has a nice 12 bay rack mount unit but I don't want to put
out $800+ for something like that. Startech has an 8-bay tower with USB 3.0
and eSata that appears to have an ATX ps. At $314 that is getting closer to
what I would pay. There might even be a way to put an little ARM board in
there and run it off the 5V rail.
Agree. I was looking for something like this a while back and had
trouble finding anything. Really what I'd like is just a smaller
version of one of these:
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-storage-pod-4/
Most bays I've seen lack port-multipliers, so you end up needing a ton
of PCI cards to interface them with. Right now I have 5 SATA ports
and an eSATA on my motherboard, and two PCI cards, and that is barely
enough to handle all the bays I have. I also have all the hot-swap
headaches that came up earlier around needing to work around cabling.
If somebody had a decent tower that had two eSATA ports on the back
and a stack of maybe 8 drives with 4 per multiplier and a power cable
for $100-150 that would be wonderful.
--
Rich
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