External disk for Ultra 2 ?

I have an Ultra 2 at home to play with, 2 internal 9 GB disks, mostly full. It also has an SBUS SCSI card.
So what are my choices to add some disk to this ? I would prefer not replacing what I have. Are there some reasonable external SCSI disks out there ? What do I look for ?
TIA
Andy

Here are a couple of Google image searches.
Sun 611 disk pack (a.k.a. "Unipack")
http://images.google.com/images?q=sun+611+disk+pack&hl=en&btnG=Search+Images
Sun 711 disk pack (a.k.a. "Multipak")
http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=sun+711+disk+pack&btnG=Search
There's a 3rd party web site with old copies of the SSH.
you can see some additional details at that site. Not much, but some.
Disk Unipak at Sunshack.Org's SSH
Disk Multipak at Sunshack.Org's SSH

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