[geeks] Best external drive array?

[Michael-John Turner]

On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 07:24:41AM -0400, Cory Smelosky wrote:
> Any ideas aside from finding a local welder and a mounting a hacked-up SATA
> port multiplier? ;)

Have you considered a case that can take a metric buttload of disks?
Something like a Norco RPC-4020, RPC-4220, RPC-4224 or similar (for those
in Europe, X-Case and Ri-vier sell similar). A bit pricier but then you
don't need to worry about the performance hit of port multipliers, etc.

The HardOCP forums (in particular sub-forum [1] and thread [2]) make for
interesting reading for those interested in larger x86-based home storage
systems.

[1] http://hardforum.com/forumdisplay.php?f=29
[2] http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1393939

Cheers, MJ
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