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Intel JBOD 2000 Family

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I am a new owner of an Intel 2U 24x2.5" SAS/SATA 6GB dual port disk tray (JBOD2224S2DP) and I am having a hell of time finding much about it. It is produced by the ESPD group and beyond this page (and links from it) I am sort of stumped. I know SAN and NAS, but my take on this is a dumb (redundant path) tray for disks and not much else.

Anyone got some better information or idea's?

My boss is eying it as an expansion to our limited SAN & NAS storage options, but I am not going to be working there much longer so not even unpacking it yet.

Wife said, what the hell would you do with it at home, since I will not let you bring that into the house!

So I can take it to my next job or of course sell it, but I want to understand if I am missing something simple about what I can and cannot do with this sexy beast of disk storage?

Thanks!
 
It's called a DAS,

You would ideally need something like a LSI 9200-8e on another computer to connect it via sff 8088 ports.

TBH, for home use it would be pretty costly in 2.5" form. Filling it with 300GB SAS drives at $300 a pop is kinda pricey, as would be sticking a low performance, low capacity SATA drives in.

I would try and get the 3.5" cages for it if I were you.
 
staticlag said:
It's called a DAS,

You would ideally need something like a LSI 9200-8e on another computer to connect it via sff 8088 ports.

TBH, for home use it would be pretty costly in 2.5" form. Filling it with 300GB SAS drives at $300 a pop is kinda pricey, as would be sticking a low performance, low capacity SATA drives in.

I would try and get the 3.5" cages for it if I were you.
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I am aware of direct attached storage (DAS) but did not use the label. My description of it as a dumb (redundant path) tray for disks is not trying to establish a secondary meaning for DAS as Dumb Attached Storage.

As to pricing for SATA or SAS drives, yes cost is an issue, but so is condition. I can buy used 300 GB 10K SAS's for around 75 - 100 per unit which is not cheap or I can pop a bunch of 7.2K RPM drives and do RAID 10 to overcome performance issues.

Ideally, I would be able to get a "NAS head" for this unit and convert it to a storage server.

***Never mind - I went to the Intel site to view current offerings and I saw this as an option on the storage server lines, so this is nothing more then a drive shelf for what I really want.

Thanks for the thoughts
 
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