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Date:      Tue, 9 Feb 2010 12:51:35 +0000
From:      Tom Evans <tevans.uk@googlemail.com>
To:        Charles Sprickman <spork@bway.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, Dan Langille <dan@langille.org>
Subject:   Re: hardware for home use large storage
Message-ID:  <2e027be01002090451w2b4506a0ofb5ab55c647540a@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.OSX.2.00.1002090103520.982@hotlap.local>
References:  <4B6F9A8D.4050907@langille.org> <alpine.OSX.2.00.1002090103520.982@hotlap.local>

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On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 6:15 AM, Charles Sprickman <spork@bway.net> wrote:
> ....
> Here's the list:
>
> http://secure.newegg.com/WishList/PublicWishDetail.aspx?WishListNumber=3D=
8441629
>
> Just over $1K, and I've got 4 nice drives, ECC memory, and a server board=
.
> Going with the celeron saved a ton of cash with no impact on ZFS that I c=
an
> discern, and again, going with a cheap tower case slashed the cost as wel=
l.
> =C2=A0That whole combo works great. =C2=A0Now when I use up those 6 SATA =
ports, I
> don't know how to get more cheaply, but I'll worry about that later...
>
> Charles
>

As long as those SATA ports are AHCI compliant, should work quite
nicely with a SiI port multiplier. Failing that, a simple 2 port SiI
PCI-E SATA card (supported by siis(4) driver) + 2 x SiI port
multiplier would give you 10 extra SATA ports.

My SiI PCI-E card cost =C2=A315, and the PM about =C2=A350, so it is about
=C2=A313/port, or ~$20/port. Probably can get the components cheaper in the
US actually. I also found some nice simple drive racks for =C2=A320/4
drives - not completely hotswappable, but much easier to replace than
screwed into the case.

Cheers

Tom



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