SAN storage practical list of options

[James Finstrom]

Isn't that awesome 9U 1TB now 1U 3TB..




On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 6:59 AM, Lisa Kachold <lisakachold at obnosis.com>wrote:

> 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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>> Stephen
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