What about something more like Drobo with the Drobo Share module? http://drobo.com/
-Chris On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 3:32 AM, Peter Manis<[email protected]> wrote: > I built my filer about a year ago so drives were a little more expensive, > but I spent a little over $2000 overall to go with hardware RAID6 on 12 > drives. If you get one of the areca PCIe x8 controllers you should be able > to pull 800mb/s+ off the disks. The areca 1231-ML ($650) says it does > Performance: (Sustained Rate / All-in-Cache) > RAID 0: Read - 885 / 1624 MB/s; Write - 847 / 1295 MB/s > RAID 5: Read - 846 / 1624 MB/s; Write - 816 / 1295 MB/s > RAID 6: Read - 811 / 1624 MB/s; Write - 776 / 1295 MB/s > Based on real benchmarks I have seen these are pretty real numbers. The > card can have a cache of up to 4gb and modules aren't too expensive. The > other benefits to a card like the 1231 is that it has an integrated NIC and > management software so you really can go barebones on the OS and be able to > use the full functionality of the card. > A friend of mine went with one of these non-hardware raid cards > (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815121009) and is > using OpenSolaris/ZFS with it and has been pretty happy. I can't really > give performance numbers because he used the PCI-X card in a standard PCI > slot, but it was nowhere near the areca. > > On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 4:29 AM, Dante Lanznaster <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 11:06 PM, David Kaiser<[email protected]> wrote: >> > I'm wondering about a rackmount NAS box for my home office. >> > >> > http://www.buffalotech.com/products/network-storage/terastation/ >> > >> > I have friends who have put Debian on these desktop units - but I'm >> > looking at a rackmount. I suppose the "firm"ware requirements are >> > pretty similar? >> > >> > I guess something else I'm interested in finding from people... is it >> > worth buying something like this, or just building a 2U rackmount server >> > with only samba, ftp and nfs on it? these are about $1800 for a 2Tb >> > unit - and can be easily configured for RAID over a web interface - is >> > it worth the extra $$$ ? Is there a good open source iScsi app/driver >> > set? >> > >> > Any opinions? >> > >> > DK >> >> >> I have only used their smaller 1Tb desktop units. Very reliable, but not >> something I would put money on. Much rather build a box and use >> either FreeNAS or OpenFiler. >> _______________________________________________ >> LinuxUsers mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > > > > -- > Peter Manis > (678) 269-7979 > > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > [email protected] > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > > _______________________________________________ LinuxUsers mailing list [email protected] http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers
