[ale] NAS suggestions

[Dennis Ruzeski]

This thing is nifty-
http://www.openfiler.com/

Does NAS/SAN/CIFS, everything! Load up a generic server with some disk and
install this and it's instant storage appliance!
Very nice GPL2 licensed product.

--Dennis





On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Robert L. Harris <robert.l.harris at gmail.com
> wrote:

>
> I need a solid NAS solution that'll give 3-5 TB without costing 50K.
> I've been using
> a CoRAID solution I really liked but when doing an "mkfs" on a drive
> this morning
> it threw a bad block.  As a result of dealing with the bad IO the NFS
> effectively
> stopped and the whole NAS basically stopped responding to NFS traffic which
> killed my ESX servers.
>
> I'd like to stay away from something requiring dedicated cables (Fibre
> channel, etc)
> if I can due to the overhead of replacing the existing gige NAS in place
> right now.
>
> Robert
>
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