Daniel

We configure storage servers based in Windows 2003/2008 Storage Server.

He have been using a 24 Bay from AKIWA for installation in post houses in Canada and the States for over 5 years with no problems.

http://www.akiwa.com/item.php?id=159 http://www.akiwa.com/item.php?id=159&pg=overview &pg=overview

You can get them with Multi Lane back planes that way you don't end up with 24 sata cables inside your case blocking air.

You can build it with a Supermicro server board and a 3ware 9650SE-24M8.

http://3ware.com/products/serial_ata2-9650.asp

This Controller provides rapid raid recovery so when a hot spare kicks in from a drive failure the raid becomes redundant again much faster.

At 24 drives I recommend a RAID 6 or RAID 50! Make sure you get the BBU option.

We configure these server with external PCIEx8 options so you can plug them with a HIB card in to your current server. PCIE expansions are transparent to the OS.

20Gigabit bidirectional communication to your host

Cheers!

Savvas Apatsidis

IC Technology

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Detroit, Michigan 48202

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From: studiosysadmins-discuss-bounces@studiosysadmins.com [mailto:studiosysadmins-discuss-bounces@studiosysadmins.com] On Behalf Of Daniel Roizman Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 1:35 AM To: studiosysadmins-discuss Subject: anyone using supermicro for storage chasis?

http://supermicro.com/products/chassis/4U/?chs=846

it's no backblaze but 24 drives, redundant power and choice of backplane feels less risky than the backblaze route. thanks to everyone's feedback, I'm trying to up the spindle count and this seems to be a cost effective route to it.

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