On Jan 25, 2013, at 10:59 AM, Andrew Hume <and...@research.att.com> wrote:
> we have tried the backblaze route (we built 5) and would neither do it > again nor advise anyone to do teh same. Since you seem to have specific experience, can you share any more details on why you don't recommend it? Otherwise, back to the original topic -- another possible product to consider is Oracle's Sun ZFS Storage Appliance 74xx line. It's "relatively" inexpensive compared to EMC Clariion or Isilon, NetApp, or Dell Compellent or EqualLogic. Note that it's a primarily a NAS filer that has iSCSI and FC SAN capabilities added on. I'm still not sure I'd trust it much for block-level access, but that could just be superstition on my part. I think NexentaStor may be similar (and also based on ZFS) but I don't have any experience with it. It is software that you deploy on your own or on someone else's "certified" hardware. (See http://www.nexenta.com/corp/solutions/dell-and-nexenta-storage-solutions for example.) - Dave _______________________________________________ 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/
