On Friday 11 October 2002 15:13, John Koenig 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.
It is in fact being done, with a 4 drive cache of 160gb drives on promise raid cards, using not amanda, but rsync. Working great. -- Cheers, Gene AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M 99.17% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
