FireWire2 macrumors 6502 Original poster Oct 12, 2008 363 6 Aug 31, 2015 #1 A client of mine wants a Thunderbolt 2 RAID 8 bay with ability to expand beyond eight drives in the future. Meaning he wants to expand more than eight RAID volume in the future. Any suggestion? TIA
A client of mine wants a Thunderbolt 2 RAID 8 bay with ability to expand beyond eight drives in the future. Meaning he wants to expand more than eight RAID volume in the future. Any suggestion? TIA
FireWire2 macrumors 6502 Original poster Oct 12, 2008 363 6 Sep 1, 2015 #2 Update 9/1/15. Found a scale-able, expandable Thunderbolt 2 RAID tower. Here are offering features of that box Dual Thunderbolt 2 ports support Mac and Windows Expandable up to sixteen drives (SATA scale-able) or 128 drives ( SAS scale-able) options Supports greater 2TB HDD (tested 3TB | 4TB | 6TB and 8TB) Supports hardware RAID level 0, 1, 3, 5 , 6, 10, 50, 60. JBoD and hot spare in MAC OS 10.x.x and Windows Supports Multiple RAID/JBOD Array volumes Online capacity expansion & RAID level migration simultaneously <=== Base on the list, i should be able to expand the existing raid up to 16x drives or 128x drives, depends on the option that i selected. It is time to get this tower and test it
Update 9/1/15. Found a scale-able, expandable Thunderbolt 2 RAID tower. Here are offering features of that box Dual Thunderbolt 2 ports support Mac and Windows Expandable up to sixteen drives (SATA scale-able) or 128 drives ( SAS scale-able) options Supports greater 2TB HDD (tested 3TB | 4TB | 6TB and 8TB) Supports hardware RAID level 0, 1, 3, 5 , 6, 10, 50, 60. JBoD and hot spare in MAC OS 10.x.x and Windows Supports Multiple RAID/JBOD Array volumes Online capacity expansion & RAID level migration simultaneously <=== Base on the list, i should be able to expand the existing raid up to 16x drives or 128x drives, depends on the option that i selected. It is time to get this tower and test it