Strictly Windows environment? HP is a good choice but if you hit it heavy you'll need to tweak some registry settings on the Storage Server. The upside is that there is a lot of information out there on how to do this. HP EVAs seem to handle mixed disks better (though not recommended, sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do). If you're running a mixed environment of Windows and UNIX, NetApp deals better with the mixed permissions. EMC quotes always seems to come in higher than all the rest. We've never been able to justify the cost. YMMV -Paul
________________________________ From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Friday, October 09, 2009 9:06 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: NAS/SAN 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? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
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