Supermicro 4U 90 bay SAS3 JBOD - $525

[Churchill]

If you're referring to a 6TB Red drive, then it would be 540TB, not PB of space. The only way to get over a PB of space out the 90 drives would be to use HGST's new 12TB drives which would give you 1.08PB of raw space.

you are right, i'm off by a factor of 10. Got too excited there.

 

[whitey]

All gone!

This is why we cant have nice things arnd here lol

 

[Jaket]

Almost picked up all three of them, local pickup was an option. Then thought about filling all those bays took a while thinking about it someone saved me a little money.

 

[ServerSemi]

The major advantage with these is that you can use cheap low tb drives and still manage to get a big amount of usuable space to work with

 

[azev]

The major advantage with these is that you can use cheap low tb drives and still manage to get a big amount of usuable space to work with

with the additional cost of higher electricity bill.

 

[raileon]

My plan to stay off the forum and save money worked! =p

Also, wow at 90. This thing is about the same size as my hgst 4u60...

 

[Rain]

Did anyone here end up picking these up? I'd love to know how loud one of these is!

 

[i386]

5 x 80mm heavy duty fan(s) with PWM fan(s) speed control

80x80x80 mm, 12K-11.3K RPM, Counter-rotating Exhaust Fan for SC946ED (90-bay) JBOD Chassis

Even with pwm they will be really loud.

 

[MrSquish]

I ended up picking one up. I have a 4 node SM fat twin. Was in the market for 4 smaller jbods to setup a storage spaces direct hyper-V cluster with it. Since it said it supported 4 zones, and was that cheap... Seemed like a good idea. Unfortunately the zoning utility only supports Linux and doesn't even seem to properly work there either. SM support and documentation for this unit has been of no help... I will probably end up selling it if I can't get the zoning working right.

 

[timd]

@MrSquish if you end up deciding to sell yours please let me know, interested...