On Thu, 5 Apr 2012, Craig Sanders wrote:
Which would make a total of 12 drives in the machine. More than it can hold, and more than my 8 sata ports will be happy with. If anything, I'll contemplate doing this with 3TB drives, once they drop in price enough.
yeah, i'm waiting for 3TB drives to get around the $100 mark before i upgrade my zpools. they were slowly heading in that direction before the thailand floods last year but have now stabilised at around $200. maybe in a year or so.
MSY has WD Green 3TB for $195, and Seagate 3TB (barracuda, i think) for $219 - WD Green drives are OK but be wary of TLER issues with a raid-card in JBOD mode rather then IT mode.
Should be sooner than that. ozbargains the other day listed either dick smith or jb hifi of all places, an *external* 3TB drive for $160 or so. How they can be cheaper with plastic case, powersupply and usb/esata electronics, I can't fathom. -- Tim Connors