Gigabit isn't fast unless you have a fast CPU and chipset.

Fanless means your drives fail in a year.

I never tried more than 4 drives at a time. If you need up to 12 drives
you will need multiple SATA controllers, it starts to sound expensive.

Friendly regards,

Bob

On Wed, 31 Aug 2011 11:14 +0530, "J. Bakshi" wrote:
> Requirements :
> 1. Low power consumption : say a power supply with less than 150W max
> 200W
> 2. Ability to sustain a minimum of 4 x 2TB SATA 6Gbps HDD. Maximum 12 i=20
> guess should suffice (if it can run on the above mentioned power supply)
> 3. Rack Mount
> 4. Not looking at RAID. Just vanilla data storage
> 5. Gigabit Ethernet
> 6. Fanless system would be preferred.


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