I had one of these array systems listed a while back, and now I've gotten in another in pretty much the same configuration (the drive labels are different, but that's about it). I want it gone before I move, so make me some offers!


Salient 48 Drive FC-AL Array Setup, 1.7TB Capacity


This system is a fully configured hardware RAID platform, with three 12-Drive Salient JBOD shelves attached to one SS-1202-FC-RAID 12-Drive Salient shelf configured with dual active hardware raid controllers. This system supports full hot-failover cache concurrent operation, with RAID levels of 1, 0, 0+1, 3, 5, 10, 30, and 50. This would be an excellent choice for high-availability database or data storage systems, and its tremendous expandability allows it to scale to any needed capacity.

Since 1.6" Fibre Channel drives are so cheap on eBay, you could easily replace the drives in this system to get a ridiculously huge array. The built-in RAID systems can handle multiple sizes and combinations of drives in various LUN configurations, and its all done transparently of the OS. Just plug it up to your server or desktop and it will show up as one huge disk! Using optical cables you can have it as far away from the host system as needed.


Included:

• 1x Salient SS-1202-FC-RAID 12-Drive FC Enclosure With:
  
  
  • 12x 36.7GB 10k rpm Seagate Cheetah FC Drives
    
  • 1x SS-OP2-1202FC-B Ops Panel
    
  • 2x SS-FFX1X12-IO-B Loop Controllers
    
  • 2x SR-RAID-1202-GB-128 Hardware RAID Controllers (Dual Active)
    
  • 2x 550 Watt Hot-Swappable Power Supplies
  
  
  
• 1x Salient SS-1202-FC 12-Drive FC JBOD Enclosure With:
  
  
  • 12x 36.7GB 10k rpm Seagate Cheetah FC Drives
    
  • 1x SS-OP2-1202FC-B Ops Panel
    
  • 2x SS-FFX1X12-IO-B Loop Controllers
    
  • 2x 550 Watt Hot-Swappable Power Supplies
  
  
  
• 2x Salient SS-1201-FC 12-Drive FC JBOD Enclosures With:
  
  
  • 12x 36.7GB 10k rpm Seagate Cheetah FC Drives
    
  • 2x SS-OPS2-1201-FC Ops Panel
    
  • 2x SS-FC1x12-IO Loop Controllers
    
  • 2x 550 Watt Hot-Swappable Power Supplies
  
  

6/25/2008 1:50:06 AM

That would be fun to have if the storage to power consumption ratio didn't suck.

6/25/2008 2:15:30 PM

The good thing is that you can put it in your bedroom and not have to run the heat in the winter.

6/25/2008 2:25:15 PM

^ Assuming you don't trip circuit breakers.

6/25/2008 4:25:51 PM

Haha, its not that bad. They only draw about 250W per shelf while running, a bit more while powering up. The second power supply in each shelf is for redundancy only. The entire array draws less than my desktop and monitors, heh.

Plus you can mix and match the shelves and RAID controllers, since the full failover controllers setup is a bit much for anything but enterprise work. Have two shelves in one place, two in another. (I wouldn't mind selling it in parts) Also, since the controllers have GBIC slots it would be easy to use optical cable, and simply have the whole array in a basement or closet far from your main PC (optical FC cables are good for like half a mile).


Fibre channel drives are dirt cheap too, so it would be easy to just dump in higher capacity drives and get yourself some HUGE capacity.

6/25/2008 5:06:31 PM

or tap into a line running off your neighbor's power

6/25/2008 5:19:39 PM

Heh, I ran the whole array off one outlet without any problem . . . . its really not bad.

6/25/2008 6:03:15 PM