first, i'm curious if (or how much) read and access speed difference there are with an emc or hp iscsi san vs a *nix box with an iscsi card and similar hardware? i haven't been able to figure out how to get the same access speed as an emc nx4 i used to have access to. however i was thinking that this was due to sas vs sata and iscsi hardware vs not and limitation of my skill. i'm also curious whether bsd would be better suited for this sense they have a better network stack?
and probably a bit ot for this form (let me know if there might be a better forum for this), the hardware i was looking at a few months ago for this project was: NORCO RPC-4224 (case) Supermicro Add-on Card AOC-SASLP-MV8 Asus P7P55 WS now, i am (obviously) considering building a sub-$1k san. what i'm wondering if if there are any better or cheaper options? it would be real nice if, instead of spending $900 + (big ass) power supply + disks, i could buy tons of cheap consumer hardware and do internal software raid and then some type of network raid and spend that money on 4 or so servers that had ~4 bays and have (even smaler / cheaper) redundant servers saying, get those few bits from server 1, then those few bits from server 2, etc. since this would require fast switching, i suppose such a think would run mainly on a network layer. i understand that these are some of the features of nfs4 / pnfs. however, i was wondering if there was any way to do this currently (with semi-stable software)? also, are there any *free* / open source low delta replication solutions yet? lastly, is there any project for doing san stuff with consumer hardware? (last i checked freenas looked more of a joke to me) ps - yes, i really do want my emc san in my bedroom. and i want it to replicate to some rackspace (i'll have to buy more of) or s3 (if i can cheaply write a billion times a day or so :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/banlktinpjpekvrbsbjiken9nqwgc0wv...@mail.gmail.com
