On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:34 PM, Daniel Roizman droizman@gmail.com wrote: > 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.

I have one SuperMicro chassis for a custom-built NAS, and it's been working fine for a couple of years now. It took a lot of time to get SLES installed on there, due to driver issues. I recommend saving some labor time by going with a vendor like Silicon Mechanics instead:

http://www.siliconmechanics.com/c7/storage.php

They have a wide variety of options in chassis types, controllers, motherboards, and processors. They will pre-install any free (as in speech) OS for little or no charge, so that's a good cheap way to determine your distro will work on the hardware, even if you don't get an OEM license from them. The more pieces you buy from them, the more they will support on their on-site warranty options, which also means much less maintenance work for you in the long run.

I recommend LSI RAID Controllers on most Linux distros. If you get 3ware, stay away from bleeding edge product line, as driver support of many distros tends to lag release time by about a year.

:) Jared

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