Re: SAS Drive Enclosure

[Ray Van Dolson <rvandolson () esri com>]

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
> list like NANOG that covers that area of IT?
>
> I am specifically looking for an enclosure that can handle 12 or more
> drives, I am looking to create a clustered file system between
> multiple servers and would like to avoid a drive enclosure that only
> works with a very small number of approved drives.  I am looking to
> support traditional HDDs as well as SSDs.

There were discussions at some point about setting up a storage-centric
list 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