+1 for iscsi or an older HP P4xx raid card (can be had with battery + cache on
ebay for ~150)
On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 02:48:01PM -0500, Chris Reeves wrote:
> I had considered that. No opposition to iscsi, but my costs would be higher
> then say, a San Digital or Mediasonic esata enclosure. But may be the way I
> go
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Julian Zottl" <jzo...@radiantnetworks.net>
> Sent: ???8/???31/???2013 8:21 AM
> To: "hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com" <hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com>
> Cc: "hardware@hardwaregroup.com" <hardware@hardwaregroup.com>
> Subject: Re: [H] Whitebox ESXI Esata Question
>
> If you have a spare box around and a couple of like drives, you could install
> nexenta or freenas and use ZFS's built in raid. It performs remarkably well
> and you would be able to use/learn iscsi :) when you need more speed, you can
> buy ssd's and front them as read and write caches for the raid.
>
> Julian
>
> Sent from my iProduct, cause I'm iSpecial.... But not in that ishort bus kind
> of way...
>
> On Aug 31, 2013, at 8:48 AM, tmse...@rlrnews.com wrote:
>
> > Ok, here's something I've never tried but have been thinking about testing..
> >
> > Have a whitebox ESXI that just runs basic test services for me.. Xeon
> > E3-1275v2 processor, 32G, etc. Anyway, storage right now is just a single
> > SATA 2TB Re4. No desperate data on there so I just acronis it off weekly.
> >
> > But I'm debating this now.. getting a VMWare certified RAID controller is a
> > sucky proposition in re-opening this box where it's at. I've seen people
> > report mixed results using an eSATA RAID device - which should be
> > completely transparent to the OS..
> >
> > Anyone try or thoughts? I figured I might grab a mid-level RAID-1 eSATA
> > device and give it a go..
--
Bryan G. Seitz
