[rdkls]

Thanks caraboga. I was contemplating this setup a year or so ago, and great to learn your insights from actual implementation. It looked to me like Supermicro JBOD enclosures would be superior (mainly hot swappability) if a bit more expensive, would you agree?

[caraboga]

My predecessor went with Backblaze clones for the drive and mb enclosure. You'll run into issues with the backblaze way as they have two power supplies, but one is for the motherboard and the boot drives, and the other power supply is for the actual drives. Further more, as this was a backblaze pod clone, there's no ipmi on the pod motherboards. It makes certain things a bit more annoying than they have to be.

If I were to do it again, I would stay away from using enclosures that were inspired by the BackBlaze models. Supermicro enclosures are fine.