SuperMicro H8SSL-i (ServerWorks HT1000) -- JMR SATAStor 6x2.5" in 1x5.25" array

[Bryan J. Smith]

Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:
> Oh, I thought I sent them by private mail. It's effectively
> this machine here in the barebone configuration
http://www.dns-shop.de/dns-shop/showProductDetails.do?productConfigId=-1987838288
> albeit at 594 EUR. Sliding rails and IPMI are 120 EUR each.

Like paying a lot for a desktop nForce4 Ultra with a low-cost
Opteron?  ;->

BTW, if you really like the Sunfire x2100 for its 4x 2.5"
notebook hard drives array, consider the JMR SATAStor which
has 6x 2.5" notebook hard drives in a 5.25" bay:  
 
http://www.jmr.com/solutions/collateral/serial_ata/SATAStor.pdf
 

The guys over at ExtremeTech took a 12 SATA port 3Ware
Escalade 9500S-12 card and two of these and did some
benchmarks.  Although I will point out the benchmarks are
_useless_ because they put the card in a standard
32-bit at 33MHz PCI slot (133MBps theoretical) and ... tada ...
they didn't see really anything better than 120MBps!  Duh!
  http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1644544,00.asp  



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