[mythtv-users] BackBlaze hard drive study
Yan Seiner
yan at seiner.com
Wed Jan 22 14:47:20 UTC 2014
On 01/22/2014 06:00 AM, Jon Heizer wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 7:47 AM, Doug Lytle <support at drdos.info
> <mailto:support at drdos.info>> wrote:
>
> >> Yup; *that's* the one I wanted. Loses an extra rackspace,
> though; you can
> >> have 14 3Us, but only 10 of those and 2 empty spaces.
>
> I've been looking at this:
>
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811219021
>
> I would highly recommend this case. We have it filled 1/2 15k SAS
> drives and 1/2 SATA SSDs in ZFS arrays and it has been amazing.
> Though we use 5 gbit cabrds instead of fiber channel. Pretty quiet
> for what it is and everything stays pretty cool. One thing to watch
> out for if you buy it is drives' backplane takes molex power and that
> many can be rare on a PSU things days. We have a bunch of SATA to
> Molex adapters and Y cables.
>
I can't believe this case is still around. I just scrapped one. It's a
great case, the trays are little more than aluminum foil, but hopefully
you only pull them out every 3 years or so.
Mine was the old one with SATA only connections; no SAS. It was rock
reliable for the 5 or 7 years I had it, but with 4GB drives available I
no longer needed 20 spinning drives.
I didn't realize how much heat and noise that case put out though... My
office is at the end of the house, with 3 outside walls, and it was
never cold. Now with it gone, and replaced with just 6 drives, I have
to have a small electric heater to keep the room above 50*F.
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