I'm late to this thread but what you really want to build is this:
http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-chea...
Oh baby!
John
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 10:47 PM, Adam Thompson athompso@athompso.net wrote:
LJ has ads from Polywell every month, I'm pretty sure they have something up your alley. (www.polywell.com/us/lx) You could also use the BeagleBoard, buy a 2-disk SATA hotswap tray, and a chassis, but you can't use a standard distro. You could always rig up to eSATA enclosures to pretty much anything that supports eSATA... Or USB, albeit at lower performance. The two-hotswap-bay requirement will likely have you either using external equipment, or an ordinary ATX mid-tower case... Regular 5.25" bays also get you reasonably cheap hotswap trays. Size-wise, almost no-one bothers making OEM product at the 2-disk level; there's tons of options in 19" units or 8-bay towers. How much are you willing to spend? -Adam
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