I recently had one of my dvrs die on me from dish network, and I was looking to connect an external drive using essta and/or usb to the unit and thought, why not take advantage of my 10tb nas I have using iscsi or another protocol such as smb. I tried to Google an adapter I was almost certain...
as i look around the forum, i am excited to take my current array (10x750GB [2 parity]) and migrate to 16x2TB (2 Parity) with the following...
1x AREC-1880x-8
1x Areca ARC-8026-16
16x WD RE4 2TB WD2003FYYS
and then upgrade the 2nd server to 16x2Tb (2 Parity)
1x Areca ARC-8026-16...
I have been scouring the forums looking for several solutions to my problem. :confused:
i am currently in the process of redesigning my storage system (Freenas, ZFS Raid 5+1 10x750GB SATA HDs.) :)
I have two 16bay SAS Chassis that im looking to install sas expanders in using an areca HBA...