Hey Guys,

I see a lot of people post their specs on these forums and a lot of good performance numbers coming from some of them.

I'm interested in building a homegrown machine, preferably 12+ hot swap SAS drive bays.

Anyone have any hardware recommendations? (ie. RAID Controllers, Mainboards, Drives, Chassis) I'm looking for good DSS hardware support, not really interested in experimental hardware.

I will be using Intel 10GbE NICs to connect this new Storage to my existing storage network.

If you have benchmarks to back up the numbers that would be great.

Thanks for your input!

Drew