Thanks for the response! That ICX is one of the ones that I've been looking at. Not easy on the pocketbook, though.
I'm also exploring the FS S5860-24XB-U. It seems to check most of the boxes. I'm assuming that pulling out one of the redundant power supplies would make it cooler and have...
I know you mention the desire to have a hardware RAID card, but I'd like to propose an alternative: Software RAID.
Just use your motherboard's 6 SATA3 connectors for the SanDisk drives, and you can also add the WD Blue to it. (The 500 GB and less drives will be less useful to you in a RAID...
My house has a 10-year-old Cat 6 network with home runs to the IT closet. None of the network cables should be over 50m or so. I'm assuming I can get 10 GbE out of them, or at the very least multigigabit.
Currently, I use a Cisco 24-port PoE-enabled switch, and have 4 Ruckus ZoneFlex 7982...
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