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From: "John Stoffel" <john@stoffel.org>
To: Rudy Zijlstra <rudy@grumpydevil.homelinux.org>
Cc: John Stoffel <john@stoffel.org>,
	Brian Allen Vanderburg II <brianvanderburg2@aim.com>,
	Wols Lists <antlists@youngman.org.uk>,
	linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux raid-like idea
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2020 14:12:18 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <24417.1026.44632.86763@quad.stoffel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43ce60a7-64d1-51bc-f29c-7a6388ad91d5@grumpydevil.homelinux.org>

>>>>> "Rudy" == Rudy Zijlstra <rudy@grumpydevil.homelinux.org> writes:

Rudy> Op 15-09-2020 om 04:12 schreef John Stoffel:
Brian> For more drives, you can use one of those external drive shelf
Brian> boxes.  I currently have the HP M6710 I got off eBay with all
Brian> caddies for about $100, which can house 24 2.5 hard drives in a
Brian> 2U chassis and I've used an LSI 9201-16e to access it (both
Brian> HBAs flashed to 20.00.07 or something like that).  I've already
Brian> tested it and it works great, though a bit loud on the fans
Brian> when powering on.  My understanding is also if you have more
Brian> than one of these shelves you can daisy chain them via their
Brian> ports SAS card -> Shelf 1 -> Shelf 2, etc, even cycling back to
Brian> the SAS card for multi-path support (which is at the time over
Brian> my head).  My plan for it is to put in my network closet once I
Brian> get it cleaned out and cabling ran better to provide
Brian> whole-house NAS storage.  I think there is also an M6720 model
Brian> for 24 3.5 drives in a 4U chassis.  There is also NetApp shelf
Brian> I was looking at but from reading looks like it uses a QSFP
Brian> connector on it's IOM, and the cables that converted from
Brian> SFF-8088 were quite expensive.
    
Rudy> I'd take a look at HP D2600

Looks like it would be too loud for a home office, with those small
fans.  And probably overkill for my needs.  But thank you for pointing
this out!  

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-09-15 18:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1cf0d18c-2f63-6bca-9884-9544b0e7c54e.ref@aim.com>
2020-08-24 17:23 ` Linux raid-like idea Brian Allen Vanderburg II
2020-08-28 15:31   ` antlists
2020-09-05 21:47     ` Brian Allen Vanderburg II
2020-09-05 22:42       ` Wols Lists
2020-09-11 15:14         ` Brian Allen Vanderburg II
2020-09-11 19:16           ` antlists
2020-09-11 20:14             ` Brian Allen Vanderburg II
2020-09-12  6:09               ` Song Liu
2020-09-12 14:40               ` Adam Goryachev
2020-09-12 16:19               ` antlists
2020-09-12 17:28                 ` John Stoffel
2020-09-12 18:41                   ` antlists
2020-09-13 12:50                     ` John Stoffel
2020-09-13 16:01                       ` Wols Lists
2020-09-13 23:49                         ` Brian Allen Vanderburg II
2020-09-15  2:12                           ` John Stoffel
     [not found]                             ` <43ce60a7-64d1-51bc-f29c-7a6388ad91d5@grumpydevil.homelinux.org>
2020-09-15 18:12                               ` John Stoffel [this message]
2020-09-15 19:52                                 ` Rudy Zijlstra
2020-09-15  2:09                         ` John Stoffel
2020-09-15 11:14                           ` Roger Heflin
2020-09-15 18:07                             ` John Stoffel
2020-09-15 19:34                               ` Ram Ramesh
2020-09-14 17:19                 ` Phillip Susi
2020-09-14 17:26                   ` Wols Lists
2020-09-15 11:32       ` Nix
2020-09-15 18:10         ` John Stoffel

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