Alternative to Dell JBOD MD1400/MD1420

[Paid_Peanuts]

Can anyone point me in the direction of a good JBOD?

 

I was looking at the MD1420 on the dell website - however it comes in quite expensive.

My intention is to connect to my backup server (Veeam) via SAS using an external RAID card in the host (i.e. PERC H830).

 

I want to populate the JBOD myself with large 2/3/4 TB drives.

 

I am after a fairly cost effective JBOD to allow me to do this, does anyone have any ideas or have something similar?

 

Any advice greatly appreciated.

[IanT]

We have quite a few HP D2600 (Discontinued) and D3600 connected via SAS

 

http://www8.hp.com/uk/en/products/disk-enclosures/product-detail.html?oid=6293995

 

Are you going to use this for B2D?

[Paid_Peanuts]

Yes the intention was to pass through the jbod storage to Veeam to do backup to disk.

[Norphy]

Netstor stuff is pretty good. We have one of their thunderbolt arrays but they sell regular jbod arrays too

 

http://www.netstor.com.tw/_03/products_rackmount.htm

 

Comes fully populated with empty drive sleds to which is more than you can say about certain other manufacturers

[Paid_Peanuts]

Comes fully populated with empty drive sleds to which is more than you can say about certain other manufacturers

 

Absolutely! Although i did find a supplier of Dell sleds at £15 each which isn't too bad.

I'll check them out.

[Paid_Peanuts]

Netstor stuff is pretty good.

 

Out of interest where did you bu your Netstor stuff from?

[Norphy]

SPAN.COM - Data Storage Specialists - London, UK - since 1994

 

They don't have the full range on their site but give them a call and I'm sure they'll be able to get what they don't have listed.