Hi, I would consider buying used server and fill it up with hard drives. Then using Linux or OpenSolaris to manage them.
-------------------------------------------------- Michael Ben-Nes - Internet Consultant and Director. http://www.epoch.co.il - weaving the Net. Cellular: 054-4848113 -------------------------------------------------- On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Amos Shapira <amos.shap...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hello, > > We have a few PowerEdge 860's which I mostly converted from our > previous-generation Windows based system to Xen hosts for development > on top of CentOS 5 (the production system is now mostly hosted > abroad). > > These servers have space for only two internal disks and I'd like to > try to convert a couple of them into servers of shared storage. > I'm thinking of just setting them up to sync their disks using DRBD > and providing access to the rest of the network via iSCSI. > > I'm looking for a way to attach lots of disks to them. So far the only > options I found are MD1000/3000 from Dell, which are a bit too > expensive for such a side-project. > > Is there another economical (and sane, speed-wise) way to get lots of > disks on these system's bus? > > Thanks, > > --Amos > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il >
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