Where can I source Celestica JBODs other than IXSystems ?

[bford]

You know that cute trick that every boring vendor eventually tries to pull ? Where they want to sell you "solutions" instead of parts ?

IXSystems is pulling that now. They won't let us buy empty JBODs - they want to sell us hard drives at 50% premium.

So anyway ...

Where can I buy a Celestica Titan JBOD:

https://www.celestica.com/uploadedFiles/Site/landing/networking-storage-and-server-hardware-platform-solutions/celestica_datasheet_titan.pdf

There are none on ebay. Not interested in the older, HGST version of this JBOD which is firmware locked to particular drives, etc.

Thanks.

 

[BoredSysadmin]

SuperMicro 4U 90-Bay 12G Dual Expander SuperChassis - SC847DE2C-R2K04JBOD

4U Double Density Storage JBOD Chassis with capacity 90 x 3.5" hot-swappable HDDs in 45 drive bays. 2000W (1+1) 96% efficient Titanium level power supplies

www.pc-pitstop.com

or

Ability 4U 90-Bay JBOD | High-Density Disk Drive Enclosure | RAID Inc.

The Ability 4U 90-Bay JBOD is a high-density disk drive enclosure, offering 900 TB of FIPS-2 JBOD storage. In stock and cost-effective at $37,000.

www.raidinc.com

p.s: I've dealt before with iXsystem/TrueNAS Ent sales - they seem like reasonable folk - if you buy enough from them you could haggle that premium down to more reasonable levels

 

[bford]

We source our own drives and have our own QC/test procedures so it's just not an option.

Just like supermicro: it wasn't enough to just be good at something and have a product everyone loved ... they needed to get cute and start selling "solutions" and "adding value" and "partnering" with us so we could "move at the speed of business".

 

[sparx]

Well, if you buy enough. Im sure Celestica would sell them to you.