On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 04:55:37PM +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: > On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 04:16:07PM +0100, Rainer Duffner wrote: > > > Ten TB? > > Starting with about four, expandable to ten or higher. I've > seen SuperMicro SATA boxes which take 12 hotplug SATA drives > in 2U, twice that with 2.5" drives. > > Right now WD consumer TByte drives go for 80 EUR, RE3 for 130. > I expect hardware is around 500-600 EUR. > > > OpenSolaris 2008.11 > > I'll reserve that as an option of last resort, in case FreeNAS > doesn't deliver. I know Sun, and I'm wary of their promises.
We use a 5TB array (with 12 slots open) with Solaris (Nevada 104) and ZFS for our primary backup server. Works beautifully. -- Jason Dixon DixonGroup Consulting http://www.dixongroup.net/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
