[180151] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: SAS Drive Enclosure
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jameson, Daniel)
Tue May 26 16:13:15 2015
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From: "Jameson, Daniel" <Daniel.Jameson@tdstelecom.com>
To: Ray Van Dolson <rvandolson@esri.com>, Graham Johnston
<johnstong@westmancom.com>
Date: Tue, 26 May 2015 20:11:20 +0000
In-Reply-To: <20150526195255.GA14394@esri.com>
Cc: "'nanog@nanog.org'" <nanog@nanog.org>
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What are you thinking for connectivity, Ethernet, FiberChannel, Infiniban=
d ... Building *Storage Nodes* or in need of just drive connectivity?
-----Original Message-----
From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Ray Van Dolson
Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2015 2:53 PM
To: Graham Johnston
Cc: 'nanog@nanog.org'
Subject: Re: SAS Drive Enclosure
On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 07:19:59PM +0000, Graham Johnston wrote:
> I am looking for information about SAS drive enclosures, is there a=20
> list like NANOG that covers that area of IT?
>=20
> I am specifically looking for an enclosure that can handle 12 or more=20
> drives, I am looking to create a clustered file system between=20
> multiple servers and would like to avoid a drive enclosure that only=20
> works with a very small number of approved drives. I am looking to=20
> support traditional HDDs as well as SSDs.
There were discussions at some point about setting up a storage-centric lis=
t via SNIA or something else fairly 'neutral'. Never really materialized, =
however.
Lists like lopsa-tech and the LISA/USENIX SAGE list are general enough you =
might get some good responses.
WRT your question, we've had good luck with the Dell MD1200 line of JBODs.
Ray
