Larg(ish) Data storage server

[vxspiritxv]

Company I work for is actually having a hard time finding a big name retailer (dell / HP... whatever) that will sell a server with like at least 12 hard drive bays. Dell says its special and they have to contact another group when we asked our sells rep about: http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/poweredge-c2100/pd
So we have been waiting for a few days now. Seeing as they think its special, I'm thinking they think its worth a special price too.

We would just like a simple server (xeon 5500 series 2.4ghz, 6gig ram, 6 x 2tb drives raid 5, for a total of 10tb, expandable to 20tb) They want dell's warranty service (on sight service). Anyone know of a similar service company selling such hardware? For some reason my company doesn't want iSCSI/FC or anything external.

 

[compslckr]

SGI offers some nice storage solutions
http://www.sgi.com/products/storage/ebod/2224.html

 

[vxspiritxv]

Those are external storage solutions (SAS connected).

Looked at some of their other offerings, http://www.sgi.com/products/storage/servers/intel_2p.html has 12 slot servers, but mixing SAS and SATA connectors. No price tags ether.

If dell doesn't come back with a price on monday, guess I'll try and talk them into DAS/SAS solution ( http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/powervault-md1200/fs )