I'm in the same boat...looking at around 5TBs, sort of have it narrowed down to lefthand or equallogic. It's a tough choice. A friend of mine went with datacore software...that looks good too. Definitely cheaper/
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 9:06 AM, John Aldrich <jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com>wrote: > So, we’re working on getting our first big “storage appliance” here. As > the IT Manager it’s my job to get quotes, etc. I’m talking to all the “big > boys” out there and getting a lot of good quotes. My requirements are fairly > simple: > > 1) On the order of 5 Terabytes of storage (*significantly* more than > we are using currently.) > > 2) Redundant everything (disks, controllers, network, power, etc.) > > > > That’s about it. We are looking, eventually, to bring email in-house, > probably using Kerio mail server as it’s got the features we need at a price > we can live with. The problem is that I’m getting quotes all over the place. > The last quote I got was for a QNap ISCSI NAS with 6 1 Tb drives, but it > doesn’t have the redundancy I’m looking for (no redundant controllers.) > > > > I’ve gotten quotes from vendors for HP, LSI, NetApp, QNap and am working on > an Equallogic quote. Anyone else I should be looking at? Our plan is to get > two of these for DR/Business Continuity purposes and have one of them at a > remote office, and possibly even back the remote one up to tape. J > > > > Am I being too paranoid? Not enough? Anything else I should be looking at? > At first I was really wanting single-instance storage, but the LSI vendor > kind of talked me out of that being a requirement. I get a report every > night from the current storage detailing all duplicate files, and there > aren’t that many so I think I can get away with not having > de-duplication/single-instance storage. > > > > Your thoughts, please? > > [image: John-Aldrich][image: Tile-Tools] > > > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
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