Those who know me well know I am a total hardware geek.  I am always looking for better storage options and made some forays into iSCSI based sans using software based targets but gave up due to immaturity in the products at the time.

Here is a nice alternative however that was posted on eHomeUpgrade.  A 12 bay eSATA storage enclosure that includes the controller!  Pretty slick.

From http://www.ehomeupgrade.com:

I just got an email from a representative at Norco Technologies who picked up on our DIY NAS post and refers us to his company's over-the-top DS-1220 NAS Subsytem – usually purchased by home integrators – that retails for around $799 - $834 [check prices | review]. At first glance, the first thing that came to mind was... Whoa Momma! The DS-1220 features 12 hot-swap drive bays, integrated power supply, 3 cooling fans, and a 4-port eSATA hard drive controller capable of 0, 1, 5, 0+1, JBOD RAID configurations. All that's needed to bring this beast alive is a motherboard, CPU, memory, an operating system of your choice, and of course a handful of hard drives which you can add to as your needs expand (max. 9TB total). More...

Monday, August 07, 2006 8:10:31 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)         Comments [0]