I have a number of LP Dell R630 machines with 2.5" disk slots.
I would like to have some shared storage based on the lowest power possible using high capacity spinning drives.
My idea was to start with 4 x 2 TB or 4 x 3TB drives since I can't see initial requirement being over this (home lab and home server use) and probably slowly go to between 8-10 drives over time.
I was looking at building around the Supermicro A2SDi-8C-HLN4F platform since this seems pretty low power.
Essentially I want to provide out storage to VM's - I have some unused SFP ports on both switch and servers but not sure what is the best approach here to getting something spec'd and built.
Primary importance is as low power as possible since my electric rates here are crazy high.
I would like to have some shared storage based on the lowest power possible using high capacity spinning drives.
My idea was to start with 4 x 2 TB or 4 x 3TB drives since I can't see initial requirement being over this (home lab and home server use) and probably slowly go to between 8-10 drives over time.
I was looking at building around the Supermicro A2SDi-8C-HLN4F platform since this seems pretty low power.
Essentially I want to provide out storage to VM's - I have some unused SFP ports on both switch and servers but not sure what is the best approach here to getting something spec'd and built.
Primary importance is as low power as possible since my electric rates here are crazy high.