--On Friday, October 11, 2002 12:13:46 -0700 John Koenig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> The amanda control host would be a smallish Linux rackmount job with
>> attached SCSI+RAID disk enclosure -- currently I'm considering a Dell
>> PowerEdge 1650 (1U, PIII-based) with a Dell PowerVault 220S (3U, 14 x
>> 36 GB Ultra160 SCSI disks + PERC/3 RAID controller). Doing a RAID-5 +
>> hot spare across the fourteen disks would give me 400 "real" GB
>> (1024^3) of holding disk.
>
>
> One comment...
>
> When I was pricing holding disk storage about 6 months ago, I came to the conclusion
>that I would rather pay a buck or $1.25 per GB (ATA 100) than the $6-$6.50 per GB
>premium for Ultra 160...
>
> Though this may alter your vertical height requirements as I am not aware of any
>high-end rackmount IDE/ATA storage solutions...but I presume they exist... as it
>would be a business opportunity due to the cost per GB.
If rack space is an issue, the are servers like the QSOL Q416r that are 4u
with 16 hot-swappable IDE drives. Now that several vendors are making
reasonably priced IDE RAID controllers it's no longer a major expense to
create terabytes of storage.
Frank
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