Re: Looking for BEST Inexpensive iSCSI storage

What about Lenovo EMC px12-450r? (part of VMware Storage compatibility list filtered by partner: EMC)

http://shop.lenovo.com/gb/en/servers/network-storage/lenovoemc/px12-450r/#techspecs

http://www.lenovo.com/images/products/server/pdfs/datasheets/lenovoemc_px12450r_data_sheet_q12013.pdf

The alternative is to purchase a branded server with a LSI card but without disks

and purchase compatible Trays/Caddy and hard disks from third party to spare money

and use higher capacity disks (consumer SATA disks)

* HP ProLiant DL380p / DL385p / DL380e

* PowerEdge R720

* Fujitsu  Primergy RX300 S8

http://www.servertrays.com/

The dream solution is a OCP Open Vault (2U) attached to a server (1U) running Debian Linux with iscsitarget

Best Regards,

Guy Baconniere