[HECnet] SSD for Vax

[Sampsa Laine]

On 10 Oct 2013, at 19:12, Brian Hechinger <wonko at 4amlunch.net> wrote:

On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 06:33:15PM +0200, Sampsa Laine wrote:

Sounds like a business opportunity, basically build an enclosure, get 5-6 consumer SSDs, RAID6 them, expose a SCSI/SAS/eSATA interface to the host. If one of the drives breaks/runs out of write cycles, the box indicates the slot and we provide a new SSD for the slot.

FreeBSD can do this easily enough.

In most cases (like my 4000/90, for example) that's way overkill. I just
want to be able to plug something in that would replace the internal
disks.

If I were doing this.   I still think my 4000/90 is going to get hooked
up to a little MSA of some sort.


I was more thinking about selling this to "enterprise" users, not hobbyists :)

The device would be packaged as a black box with no configuration etc needed - it just looks like a SCSI drive to the bus.

It could provide more space, redundancy and speed for lower cost if built right..

Sampsa