drobo sure is cool, but man what an expensive device.
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 8:07 AM, Chris Louden<[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ LinuxUsers mailing list [email protected] http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers
