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Hello All,
Been lurking for quite awhile, soaking up tons of wonderful knowledge from this community, so first things first - thank you all!
Currently I'm in the planning stage of a 12-20 bay, hot swap, storage solution. Primarily a storage item, not a lot of I/O requirements. I keep waffling on whether to build a DAS, a NAS/Filer, or just a 'server with a lot of hard drives'.
In the process of my research (when thinking direct access), I came across the following piece of equipment. Searched this forum and didn't find any mention of it, so I thought to share it with the community.
http://www.istarusa.com/storage/pcie/default.aspx
- 12 - 24 bay hot swap enclosures.
- Redundant power supplies
- Includes a "daughterboard" of sorts, to which you insert your RAID controller. Then insert the included adapter in your PCI-e 16/8x slot in the server. Connect the enclosure "daughterboard" to the server adapter with a "PCI-e cable" with a claimed 20Gb/sec bandwidth.
Food for creative thoughts!
-Jayson
Been lurking for quite awhile, soaking up tons of wonderful knowledge from this community, so first things first - thank you all!
Currently I'm in the planning stage of a 12-20 bay, hot swap, storage solution. Primarily a storage item, not a lot of I/O requirements. I keep waffling on whether to build a DAS, a NAS/Filer, or just a 'server with a lot of hard drives'.
In the process of my research (when thinking direct access), I came across the following piece of equipment. Searched this forum and didn't find any mention of it, so I thought to share it with the community.
http://www.istarusa.com/storage/pcie/default.aspx
- 12 - 24 bay hot swap enclosures.
- Redundant power supplies
- Includes a "daughterboard" of sorts, to which you insert your RAID controller. Then insert the included adapter in your PCI-e 16/8x slot in the server. Connect the enclosure "daughterboard" to the server adapter with a "PCI-e cable" with a claimed 20Gb/sec bandwidth.
Food for creative thoughts!
-Jayson