Yes, from the very beginning, but they are based on SATA expanders and have relatively <i>very</i> poor performance.  They are really built specifically for that workload and not for a lot of other storage workloads.<p>That was depressing circa the first BB pods where there really wasn&#x27;t another option (other than using a Sun Thumper&#x2F;x4500, which we also considered) ... but now the chassis options from supermicro are so good - ranging from 45-90 drives - that it&#x27;s not a problem at all.