SAN storage practical list of options

[Lisa Kachold]

The bottom line here is going to be cost, sounds like.

You could go out to get EMC/Clarion, or Netappliance, yet if what you really
might be able to afford is going to come off of Fry's racks.  Go look at
what they have?   Unless you need a NAS like a Sun 2450 with fiber channel
multipath I/O this is going to be a simple SAN?

What you might actually need is a NFS SAN?

I supported 9 U Terrabyte capacity  American Micros running 3ware cards that
popped off disks regularly, so you want to be sure your environment is
controlled if you device to go plain NSF4 SAN box or get a HP RAID server
for instance.

i personally loved the NetAppliance I managed at Teleport for mail, because
it was very powerful and easy to use.
But of course the cost is going to be prohibitive?

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 11:39 PM, Stephen <cryptworks at gmail.com> wrote:

> well i have a large project, I need to create a "growable" store of
> data that is redundant as it will have archival media (audio and
> video). both will be HD quality media. so i am looking at a large pool
> fo data.
>
> i can build a NAS box that will last a while, but it will hit a
> terminal point of capacity. and it will be a single point of access so
> it will create access issues.
>
> So a SAN to distribute both load redundancy and allow for a growing
> capacity is kind of needed.
>
> and looking at most everything out there im leery of jumping on a hype
> bandwagon.
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Alex Dean <alex at crackpot.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Apr 17, 2009, at 3:56 PM, Stephen wrote:
> >
> >> anyone here using a SAN and if so what are they using, maybe some of
> >> the points that sold you on it? or i fyou hate it why?
> >>
> >> it would be nic to have real world thoughts on it instead of all the
> >> markey speak...
> >
> > Could you elaborate on the requirements somewhat?  How do you balance the
> > goals of redundancy, performance, scalability, cost, etc?
> >
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