Craig> ...actually, I think it's very helpful. Craig> The array is currently grossly over-sized, but only holding Craig> 105Gb of actual data. I could easily stuff it full of 250G or Craig> 500G SSDs without breaking the bank, and end up with a much Craig> smaller total capacity array... and the total, smaller size Craig> would be fine. I'm really leaning towards SSDs but wanted to Craig> check with the hive mind.
Just replace it with a PAIR of SSDs in RAID1 mirror pair. Get the 512Gb versions for growth. Cheaper (much!) than 15K drives and much more performance. Again, put the SSDs onto the main server, and if you need other systems to access it, either copy to the Drobo, or just share it via NFS/CIFS/smoke signals, etc. For the cost, this will get you a much better setup. Heck, a dedicated small form factor PC, gigE ethernet, and a pair of 512Gb SSDs will probably cost $1k, which will be cheaper than the three or four 15K SATA/SAS drives you were thinking of. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
