Recent content by Stoat

Did you miss the part where I pointed out that hard drives have significantly shorter lifespans than SSDs? Or that power consumption and thermals ARE an issue? You're comparing apples to twinkies (not even orange juice) with your SSD comparison: Yes, the Micron SSDs (most SSDs actually) are...

Tiered storage still requires devices. I'm looking at this, but I _can't_ tier to tape as the access time is too long and tiering archival to HDD means 5-9kW continuous power consumption We're not constrained on rack space for the most part (although I only have room for 8 racks and) the bigger...

1: I'm really looking to find professional chassis, not homebrew - and tossing it out there to see if anyone knows of them (yet) 2: Preferably a top loading 100+ ssd chassis - a smaller version of the Supermicro/Chenbro 3.5" top loaders - Top Loading Storage Servers | Supermicro (I know about...

Yes, yes, I know, "I'm nuts" Or am I? We all know about the plethora of top loading 42-60-90 bay JBOD drawers that hit the market over the last 10-15 years, but the paradigm just changed. At the low end, SMR drives are being submarined into the market in CMR clothing - and being pushed as...

I've acquired a couple of old SM chassis for home server work (moving the ZFS installation over from an ancient board which consumes 400W just idling) and as luck would have it, these have the old BPD-sas836el1 3Gb/s expanders in them instead of the sas2 versions. These use the venerable LSI...