Big, fast disk toys

[foodog]

Kevin Brown wrote:
> 
> Of course using Raid0 gets you no data protection :) .
> 
> Didn't Slashdot have a pointer a few months ago on building a TB storage server
> for under $5K?  Sounds like an interesting idea for a multimedia box.  Don't

Do you have a link to that TB storage server article?  There were a
couple of Linux-based SAN projects going awhile back but the ones I read
about have gone dormant. You can never have too many bottomless storage
pits :-)

> know what else would need 4 or more 100GB drives (or even 2 or more) unless you
> are recording whole TV show seasons, movies, mp3s, ogg vorbises, etc...

Swarms of users, mostly. In our case it'll almost model a gargantuan
Netware 5.1 server that needs a software  upgrade.  It routinely has 450
- 500 users logged in, and somewhere around 3 million files.  We need to
bring up "Native File Access for Macintosh" by either a directory
services upgrade (NDS 7 to eDirectory), or take it to Netware 6.  The
server has about 450GB online (at RAID 5), but it's not all in use.

Steve