Storage array with 16x 8Tb SAS drives (ST8000NM0075)?

rwatki

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Im looking for a storage array, cheap as possible, using the ST8000NM0075 8Tb SAS drives.
Trying to put together about 100Tb, so that would be about 16 bays using Raid-6.
Im open to FreeNAS or OpenFiler, just never used them before, so I don't know how to set one up.
 
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You are going to need a big chassis for 16 drives and probably something with a port multiplier since you probably only get 8 SAS ports on a card. I don't know if using the redundancy of ZFS is more or less reliable than using RAID 6 on a hardware card....

kanewolf

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You are going to need a big chassis for 16 drives and probably something with a port multiplier since you probably only get 8 SAS ports on a card. I don't know if using the redundancy of ZFS is more or less reliable than using RAID 6 on a hardware card....
 
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