I've got a Dell Poweredge tower server running RAID-Z1 on 4 internal disks. I'd like to extend it with another maybe 8 disks in a RAID-Z2 with the option of easily adding another 8 or 16 later. The system has an eSATA connector so an enclosure that provides 24*3.5" disks with a SATA interface (not SCSI because I need SMART to work) at 6Gb/s (600MB/s) will do. Does anyone know of such an enclosure that's cheap? Ideally it wouldn't be excessively noisy (although 24 disks isn't going to be that quiet) because it's not a rack-mount system. Before someone comments on the speed, this is mostly for archival and the data will be accessed over a single Gig-E connection. So I need 100MB/s data transfer out of the system (maybe 140MB/s if a USB device is being used at the same time) and the 600MB/s will only be for zpool scrub. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/