Re: external drive enclosures / esata / port multipliers?
On Thu, 20 Jan 2011, Monte Milanuk wrote:
> On 1/19/11 10:23 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> I'm somewhat inclined to go with option 'C': an HP Proliant
> Microserver N36L - comes without OS (certified for RHEL5), 1GB ECC
> memory + 160gb SATA drive. Move the OEM drive to the optical drive
> bay, stuff the four HDD bays with 2TB drives and call it a day. A
> little more expensive than the eSATA 4-bay drive enclosure, still a
> good bit cheaper than the SAS/SATA 4-bay enclosure + SAS HBA card.
> Replaces the old desktop PC 'server' entirely.
That would work, yes. I have seen a lot of people do something like that.
If you buy a good motherboard and power supply, it is quite reliable. I
don't know if HP used quality components, but they usually do on their
server lines (not so much on anything desktop/laptop, though).
--
"One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
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