On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Dante Lanznaster<[email protected]> wrote: > drobo sure is cool, but man what an expensive device.
Well if the other one was 1800, drobo would be less then half. > > 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 > _______________________________________________ LinuxUsers mailing list [email protected] http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers
