From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 21 06:12:06 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23F8F1065670 for ; Wed, 21 Oct 2009 06:12:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dean@fragfest.com.au) Received: from Togusa.fragfest.com.au (togusa.fragfest.com.au [203.98.91.208]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D94A88FC20 for ; Wed, 21 Oct 2009 06:12:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from optimus.optusnet.com.au ([203.10.68.27]) by Togusa.fragfest.com.au with esmtpa (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1N0UQT-0005Xi-Ei; Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:12:03 +1100 Message-ID: <4ADEA668.9000401@fragfest.com.au> Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:12:56 +1100 From: Dean Hamstead User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20090701) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: grarpamp References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on Togusa.fragfest.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.5 X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:20:07 +0000) Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD and SATA Port Multipliers X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 06:12:06 -0000 FWIW you can buy the case and accessories for a very reasonable cost. just click further through the blog and they link the manufacturer. its extremely cheap 90tb of zfs.... Dean grarpamp wrote: > In the somewhat related dept... > > The SiI3124 and SiI3726 seem to be *really* > popular chipsets for low cost JBOD setups > so I'm sure any work done towards this > will be a win. The only other chip I see > a lot of is the Marvell 88SX6041 and 88SX6081. > Any others, particularly of the eight port > generic card variety or other multipliers??? > I'm not sure if JMicron ever got into the 4/8 port > game. > > A somewhat related diversion: > http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage/ > > And without the fab... you'd be amazed what a > bicycle inner tube, scrap pc case lids, tin snips, > hammer, anvil, drill bit, and a pop rivet tool will yield ;-) > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hardware-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- http://fragfest.com.au