[LUNI] External chassis suggestion

Mark Stuart Burge mark at msbrepairs.com
Tue Oct 2 22:02:16 CDT 2007


Have you tried Fries in Downers Grove ?  I think I saw some there a few 
weeks ago.

Seva Epsteyn wrote:
> I have a 1U rack mountable server that has 2 internal drives, I would like 
> to use the system to host a bunch of Xen virtual machines.  My plan is to 
> use the 2 internal drives to run a RAID1 mirror for the base operating 
> system and connect some sort of external JBOD to the box.
>
> I happen to have an internal 3Ware 8506-4LP SATA RAID controller I bought 
> a while ago, it's internal 4 drive (2 SATA connectors) card.  I was 
> thinking I could get an internal SATA to eSATA adapter (or something along 
> those lines), which doesn't seem to be a problem to find.  What has been 
> difficult to locate is the chassis for eSATA JBOD.
>
> Would prefer a 4-disk 1U chassis, but anything else is OK as well.  Do you 
> guys have any reasonably priced (for personal use) suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Seva
>   


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