[geeks] Best external drive array?

[Cory Smelosky]

Morning all,

I've begun archiving a bunch of the stuff I have acquired/stumbled 
upon...and really, a 3TB ZFS RAID-1 array is not the best solution to keep 
this stuff longer than 5 minutes. ;)

I more-or-less need a dumb external drive cage...probably 8-drive minimum, 
hotswap that can be tossed at a FreeBSD/Solaris box for ZFS...meaning 
JBOD.  I don't need all the ethernet cruft...the simpler and lower-power 
the better.  eSATA or POSSIBLY USB3 would suffice...speed isn't a 
priority...reliability and capacity IS.

Any ideas aside from finding a local welder and a mounting a hacked-up 
SATA port multiplier? ;)

Also...density for ZFS is a much higher priority than number of blinkenlights and fancy windows-only administration panels. ;)

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Cory Smelosky
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