Linux and Storage

[Devin Atencio]

I should say that initially it is for hosting Media Files, however
it would be nice to have something that scales so we can use it for
other purposes down the road.

A friend told me to look into iScsi from Dell also.


On 1/23/08 10:42 AM, "Craig White" <craig at tobyhouse.com> wrote:

> 
> On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 10:03 -0700, Devin Atencio wrote:
>> 
>> I am currently looking into options for what might be the best
>> and hopefully cheap way to add external storage to some machines
>> that can be used by multiple servers.
>> 
>> I realize that obviously some kind of external storage unit probably
>> attached to NFS might be my best option. I have also seen the product
>> from Coraid (http://www.coraid.com) that provides a device that does
>> ATA over Ethernet. Does anyone have experience with this product, or
>> can give me other alternatives?
> ----
> no first hand experience with the coraid devices but they have been at
> it for a few years now and probably have ironed out most of the
> wrinkles.
> 
> What is missing is the type of storage you intend to use this with
> because that would probably dramatically impact. File storage is
> different than serving a MySQL or PostgreSQL database or mail server,
> because the NFS is suitable for file storage but not likely suitable for
> the other needs.
> 
> The common method for multi-server data storage is fibre channel
> storage. Low cost is not one of its best features though.
> 
> For low cost storage, you should also look at serial attached SCSI (SAS)
> and external SATA (eSATA) but this is really single system storage.
> 
> What I have found is that it is hard to get low cost storage at a
> cheaper price than buying a whole server with the amount of internal
> storage and sharing it via NFS/Samba/Netatalk or whatever protocols
> necessary to accomplish the task but again, this isn't suitable for some
> protocols like databases.
> 
> Craig
> 
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