"Poor" man's NAS

[A. Khattri]

On Thu, 8 Jun 2006, Dominic Lepiane wrote:

> Now, can a system even be built like this?  Can I find a chassis big enough to
> get anywhere near 8 drives?

Sure - for example, Chenbro make rack-mount chassis that can accommodate
up 16 drives. Look at this monster:

http://www.chenbro.com.tw/product/product_preview.php?pid=99

A friend is building a big server with 12 Segate SATA drives, hot-swap
chassis together with a 12-channel SATA RAID card. One neat thing: instead
of 12 drive cables you can get a Chenbro backplane which takes multilane
cables:

http://www.chenbro.com.tw/product/product_preview.php?pid=90

> Can I power those drives?  How much power does
> it take?  Is there such a thing as a redundant power-supply I could get
> somewhat easily?

The 16-drive Chenbro chassis mentioned above, also has hot-swap fans
and four hot-swap power supplies ;-)

Our supplier gets us SATA drives really cheap (Segate SATA 250Mb is < $100
each)


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A