Hi Guys,
I've an HP Microserver which is currently home to five drives; one 2TB system drive then four 2TB in a ZFS RAID-Z1 (so, raid 5-alike). The RAID array is filling up, so I'm looking to expand.
I've been googling around and I'm struggling to come up with the best solution. Would I be better to try and expand the existing microserver, through use of some sort of SAS controller and a drive shelf, a DAS (containing a SATA Port multiplier) using an eSATA PCI Express adaptor to connnect it? a stack of external USB2 hard drives, or even just a second microserver or similar?
I'm not too worried about the speed of access, but am concerned about keeping power consumption low.
Any suggestions? Is there something obvious here that I'm missing?
Thanks,
Blueacid
I've an HP Microserver which is currently home to five drives; one 2TB system drive then four 2TB in a ZFS RAID-Z1 (so, raid 5-alike). The RAID array is filling up, so I'm looking to expand.
I've been googling around and I'm struggling to come up with the best solution. Would I be better to try and expand the existing microserver, through use of some sort of SAS controller and a drive shelf, a DAS (containing a SATA Port multiplier) using an eSATA PCI Express adaptor to connnect it? a stack of external USB2 hard drives, or even just a second microserver or similar?
I'm not too worried about the speed of access, but am concerned about keeping power consumption low.
Any suggestions? Is there something obvious here that I'm missing?
Thanks,
Blueacid