In my never ending quest for massive amounts of storage, I’m lusting over a nice desktop (yes desktop, not rack) case that can handle up to 16 SATA II drives. Nothing less than 8 drives of course. It’ll all be RAID-5 and connect back to my server via GigE and/or SCSI or some other single cable. And the stupid thing would cost less than $1000 to buy without any drives. My best bet so far… But it’s a rack mount, and without requesting a quote I’m sure it’s 3x more than I want to pay.

Surely there’s a company out there that’s open to enthusiasts that are willing to pay just a tad more than the average consumer but not the Fortune 500 type pricing this stuff seems to get now.

I keep going back and forth. I know for sure that I need to handle at least 8 drives for RAID-5 in the next 3 years, and I know it’ll be all with SATA drives, I’m just not sure what the best solution is at this time, especially with all the motherboards now that have onboard RAID.

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