Drobo... few reasons why I want to keep it. I reeeeeeeeally like the appliance approach. Push drives in, pull drives out, it manages itself. I have an app on one of my desktops that says, see that mounted file server over there? ...good, encrypt and back it up into Amazon Glacier. So I have zero admin overhead... wife and I just treat it like a magical storage land.
aside: I'm fully capable of doing RAID/linux and all that... I just dont want to have linux servers and hand-managed RAID arrays in my house :) So, "stuck" (read "in love") with the drobo. 5, 250Gb SSDs are within budget, so I'm really leaning towards going that way and slowly stuffing them in. Probably talk to Drobo support first to make sure it'll be happy with me removing 1T and 2T drives one by one and replacing with smaller SSDs. -c On Dec 6, 2016, at 4:10 PM, Adam Levin <levins...@gmail.com> wrote: Yeah, I think I agree with John. It sounds like given that you don't have real capacity requirements, I'm not sure the Drobo is the best solution for this, except that you already have it. If performance is key, and it's small random I/O, a mirrored pair of SSDs would kick ass. -Adam On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 4:03 PM, John Stoffel <j...@stoffel.org> wrote: Craig> ...actually, I think it's very helpful. Craig> The array is currently grossly over-sized, but only holding Craig> 105Gb of actual data. I could easily stuff it full of 250G or Craig> 500G SSDs without breaking the bank, and end up with a much Craig> smaller total capacity array... and the total, smaller size Craig> would be fine. I'm really leaning towards SSDs but wanted to Craig> check with the hive mind. Just replace it with a PAIR of SSDs in RAID1 mirror pair. Get the 512Gb versions for growth. Cheaper (much!) than 15K drives and much more performance. Again, put the SSDs onto the main server, and if you need other systems to access it, either copy to the Drobo, or just share it via NFS/CIFS/smoke signals, etc. For the cost, this will get you a much better setup. Heck, a dedicated small form factor PC, gigE ethernet, and a pair of 512Gb SSDs will probably cost $1k, which will be cheaper than the three or four 15K SATA/SAS drives you were thinking of. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
