Discussions that I read on this list in the last couple of months tempt me to do away with hardware RAID entirely for a new mini-storage-project I have to do. I am thinking of going for a JBOD with Linux Software RAID via mdadm. Hardware RAID just doesn't have the original awesomeness that it had me mesmerized with.
Any recommendations for a good JBOD? The requirements are simple. 5 Terabytes total capacity. SATA drives. Don't need high performance: these are for archival home dirs. No active jobs run from this storage. Reliability and low price are key. Some kind of Direct-Attached Storage box. RAID5 or RAID6 maybe. Already have a pretty fast 8 core server with lots of RAM that I can hook this up to. Neither bandwidth nor IOPS need to be terribly high. Most of the data here is pretty static and not often moved around. One of the things I notice is that 5 Terabytes seems too low-end these days. Can't find many solutions tailored to this size. Most come with 12 or 16 bays etc. which seems excessive for this application. -- Rahul _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
