Since you mention "build-your-own" -- have you seen the projects designed by Backblaze?
http://blog.backblaze.com/2011/07/20/petabytes-on-a-budget-v2-0revealing-more-secrets/ 135TB for ~$7,500 Scroll down to the bottom of the posting and you'll see a breakdown of all the parts and costs. Might work for you, but can't say for sure without knowing more about your setup. Still, might lead you down the right path... or simply be interesting to read. -mike- On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 9:07 AM, Craig Cook <cncook...@yahoo.com> wrote: > We have around 200TB of dev/QA storage that is across 3 SAN's. (EMC VMAX > and IBM XIV's) > > Servers are AIX, Solaris and VMware. > > We are looking to replace it with cheaper storage. > > I would be interested in build-your-own-NAS solutions, but I am not sure > what to start looking at. (Netapp is too expensive) > > Failing that, what does a cheap SAN look like? > > We don't need SAN replication, or many fancy features. > > Any ideas? > > Thanks > > Craig > > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > Tech@lists.lopsa.org > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > >
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