On December 3, 2004 09:47 am, "J. Rafael SÃnchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I thank you all for your comments. If I were to buy a couple of external > firewire/sata/ide/raid cases with around 2TB capacity each, and attach > them to one or two of my existing [fastest] servers, would I be getting > a comparable solution? > Yeah you can use external DAS boxes to make a current server into a NAS box that way. You could even offer server failover to some extent with this setup as most DAS boxes come with dual channel support. (IE if one of the servers hangs, the other server could takeover the file sharing.)
> Also, we produce, not only lot's of data, but files that have started to > reach beyond the 2Gb threshold, an issued which I'm already having some > challenges with. It becomes a challenge to move them around. Would you > care to comment on that? You may want to consider something like jfs for your file system then. It handles large files better than ext3 or reiserfs. > > Has anyone had to deal with a similar situation and, if I may ask, how > do you deal with it? We supply lots of customers with NAS boxes to handle this. > I recently put a 64bit system together... and > installed FC3 on it...I've had some problems with it already, but that's > another complete different topic of discussion... We use and sell lots of opterons with out issues and FC3 is definitely the best OS out for that hardware. -- Mark Lane, CET -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sales Manager -- Hard Data Ltd -- http://www.harddata.com T: 01-780-456-9771 -- F: 01-780-456-9772 11060 - 166 Avenue Edmonton, AB, Canada, T5X 1Y3 --> Ask me about our New Dual and 4 Way Blade Servers <-- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
