On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Dante Lanznaster<[email protected]> wrote: > The DroboPro which is closer to what DK mentioned, runs around $1600 with 2TB
Thats if you buy the drives from them. You can get the Drobo with Drobo Share for $600 and then buy the drives yourself. 4x500GB for 220 more. 4x750GB for 300. Newegg prices. > > On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 8:43 AM, Chris Louden<[email protected]> wrote: >> 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 >> > _______________________________________________ > 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
