<p>Though my storage is FreeNAS (over FreeBSD running as a VM in ESXi), I like it for ZFS and zraid2. the main benefit of FreeNAS is a web interface I really don't need.</p>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Jul 15, 2012 2:48 AM, "Jeff Hubbs" <<a href="mailto:jhubbslist@att.net">jhubbslist@att.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I hate NASses and recommend them only for amateurs. That is, amateurs I<br>
don't like. :)<br>
<br>
Replacing a vastly overpriced NAS (Netapp rebadged as IBM) with a<br>
Supermicro-based Linux/Samba machine full of SATA and SAS drives at a<br>
former employer saved tens of thousands of dollars and facilitated being<br>
able to do very fast ClamAV virus scans (at over 200MiB/s, IIRC) and<br>
searches and had the flexibility of...well, a Linux machine. Compare<br>
this to having to pay IBM just to enable each protocol used (e.g., a few<br>
thou to switch on NFS). On a contract job before that, a guy at LaCie<br>
eventually admitted to me that the NFS implementation on one of their<br>
products never worked right but they shipped regardless. Crap like<br>
that. But PHBs buy the things at the drop of a hat, thinking they're<br>
getting away with something.<br>
<br>
On 7/14/12 5:01 PM, Erik Mathis wrote:<br>
> Although this wasn't a solution with performance in mind, but this a<br>
> really cheap 12T (8.2T usable) solution<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822122062" target="_blank">http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822122062</a><br>
> and<br>
> <a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822236108" target="_blank">http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822236108</a><br>
> iirc it was about $1300 9 months ago.<br>
><br>
> This readynas supports iscsi, nfs, cifs, and LVM snapshots. Also 2X<br>
> ethernet ports for bonding. If you have never used the readynas<br>
> products, they are basically linux boxes (using MD+LVM) and they have<br>
> a plugin system. They also have always been reliable for me. Anyway<br>
> its a cheap way to scale<br>
><br>
> -Erik-<br>
><br>
> On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 5:03 PM, Alex Carver <<a href="mailto:agcarver%2Bale@acarver.net">agcarver+ale@acarver.net</a>> wrote:<br>
>> I'm trying to design a storage system for some of my data in a way that<br>
>> will be useful to duplicate the design for a project at work.<br>
>><br>
>> Digging around online it seems that a common suggestion has been a good<br>
>> motherboard, a SATA/SAS card, a SATA/SAS expander, and then a huge<br>
>> chassis to support all of the SATA drives.<br>
>><br>
>> It looks like one of the recommended SATA/SAS cards is an LSI 9200<br>
>> series card connected to an Intel RES2SV240 expander.<br>
>><br>
>> What I'm trying to achieve is continually expandable storage space. As<br>
>> more storage is required, I just keep slipping drives into the system.<br>
>> If I max out a case, I just add a SATA/SAS card, use external SATA/SAS<br>
>> cables (do those exist to go from SFF-8087 to SFF-8088?), another<br>
>> expander and then stretch into a new case.<br>
>><br>
>> It's obviously going to run linux or I wouldn't be asking here. :) The<br>
>> entire storage system will probably start somewhere around 10-16 TB and<br>
>> grow from there. The first question would be suggestions for an optimal<br>
>> configuration of the disks. For example, should the drives be grouped<br>
>> into say RAID-5 arrays with four devices per array and then logically<br>
>> combine them in software into a single storage volume? If so, what file<br>
>> system will support something that could potentially reach beyond 100 TB<br>
>> (not that I'd reach 100 TB anytime soon but it can happen)?<br>
>><br>
>> Thanks,<br>
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