DAS for a Sun x4600 M2

[pillagenburn]

so I'm stuck in the 2008 era and deciding that I want to pick up a sun x4600 M2 on ebay on the cheap... only problem is that it has 4 drive bays.

So I'm new to Direct Attached Storage and was looking at a QLogic 2464 card cheap on ebay , but not sure what actual racks are comaptible with it? Is there a recommended rack? If I can't find a deal on a storage rack that already has drives in it, I will probably buy a bunch of 3.5" seagate SATA drives (2-3tb most likely)...

Does anyone have any suggestions? I'm on a budget so I'm looking for the best bang for my buck... I see a 3u rackable setup for $200 with controller card, but I'm a bit weary of it.

budget for drives and all is around $500-600 for drives, controller and rack (not including the SSD's I plan to buy to put into the x4600 bays).

Or would it just be a better idea to just pick up one of these netapp 10TB arrays with a pile of 750gb drives in them? But don't those eat power?

 

[FLECOM]

if you want to do FC I use eonstor/infortrend stuff personally but it's very hit and miss on ebay

you set on FC? you can do SAS also

HP MSA60 12 3.5" SAS/SATA drives (about $300 on ebay)
http://www.ebay.com/itm/418408-B21-...142?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item418702f0e6

HP MSA70 25 2.5" SAS/SATA drives (about $300 on ebay)
http://www.ebay.com/itm/HP-STORAGEW...997?pt=US_SAN_Disk_Arrays&hash=item19f4289e05

Rackable 16 bay JBOD (usually around $200 on ebay)
http://www.ebay.com/itm/SGI-RACKABL...987694?pt=COMP_EN_Servers&hash=item1e8fc3b92e