Michael S. Peek wrote:
Damon L. Chesser wrote:
Having done support for a tier1 OEM, I found
many of our customers (running Linux) ignored the raid controllers and
used them as disk controllers and then used software raid.
This would be fine, I don't really care if it's a hardware or software
RAID, although it seems like a waste of money to buy a hardware RAID
card just to use as a dense SATA controller. Is there such a thing as
a SATA controller just for lots of drives? One that supports, say, 8
or more drives and is supported by the linux kernel out of the box?
All I really want is to be able to have big-time data density in a
single machine.
...That is, unless someone knows a good and cheap way to have big-time
data density outside the machine. The other option I'm looking at is
a NAS, but it seems to me that the cheaper solution is to build a
storage server myself instead.
My biggest hurdle here is that I have absolutely no experience with
SANs or NASs, and I have a short period of time to get my proposal in,
so I was planning on going with what I know will work: a big, fat case
from rackmountpro.com with a hardware RAID card and 24 friggin' drives.
Michael
Michael,
Alas! I just don't know about SATA controllers. Given your situation,
it would appear that your plan is the best one. I would stick with what
you know and what you know works. Time is short and your rep is on the
line. Beyond that, I would have to let some one more experienced with
NAS/custom storage then myself advise you. RAID I feel comfortable
with. Talking about big high density SATA controllers vs NAS, I do not.
HTH
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