Well... Even with the ppl I have read that had loss of data due to the use of such Systems, most of it comes from racklessness & no backup.
With hot swap and hot spare and I a nightly tape backup iam not that afraid from loss Of data. SATA raid has a lot of problems, a lot of BAD microcodes for HD controllers cause problems With the raid controllers. There is a none official list of those HDs in storage forums all Over. But still, I have read user comments for systems used in SMB With HW controllers such as LSI MegaRAID and 3Ware 8xxx which are working fine. The lowest good NAS solution I found was 4.5K$ , how can you compare that with a 1800$ solution with 350GB Neto ( After raid and snapshot deduction ) and I don't get University discounts.... Snapshots Hot spare Hot swap Power redundant And you can even spend another 250-600$ for external disk enclosure so it will be DAS like :) ( http://www.cwol.com/serial-ata/4-bay-hot-swap-raid-kit.htm ) You also have NAS os solutions like Darma OS if you dare to try http://nas.darma.com/products_home.html Or you can just compile your kernel and tune it for Network I/O and tweak the TCP to your usage -----Original Message----- From: Marc A. Volovic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 9:18 PM To: Ariel Biener Cc: Baruch Shpirer; linux-il@linux.org.il Subject: Re: Linux NAS like Solution Ariel Biener wrote: > Unless this $2k is absolutely critical, I suggest you go for a >supported >and full featured NAS solution. What solutions exactly are $2k more expensive >than what you propose ? None of the good ones are in that price range, and I >am talking about prices for university, which are lower than usual, and >still. > > Surprising as it is, I quite agree with Ariel. You will spend much more than US$2k implementing the solution, debugging it and (which, of course, is a good thing) you will be the sine qua non for your company. - they will never dare firing you. There are, if you wish to use a Linux-based solution, quite a few firms that do this. M ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
