George Georgalis wrote:
you can get a very nice 2 channel 4Gb FC 16 bay
sata-II enclosure that supports raid-6 et al from
caeneng.com (by infotrend) for a lot less than 10K,
Or you can do what I do and use AoE. Put together a box using hardware
something like this (just some notes I happened to have nearby, I would
not use generic "super talent" memory in such a critical system, for
example), install Linux and one of the AoE target software options
available (vblade or qaoed):
SUPERMICRO X7DVL-E-O Dual 771 Intel 5000V ATX Server Motherboard - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813182097&Tpk=X7DVL-E
335.99
Intel Xeon 5110 Woodcrest 1.6GHz 4M shared L2 Cache Socket 771 Active or
1U Processor - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819117081
206.99
SUPER TALENT 1GB 240-Pin DDR2 FB-DIMM ECC Fully Buffered DDR2 667 (PC2
5300) Server Memory - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820609177
69.99
SUPERMICRO CSE-932T-R760B Black 3U Server Case 760W Triple-Redundant -
Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811152069
759.99
Western Digital Raptor WD1500ADFD 150GB 10,000 RPM 16MB Cache Serial
ATA150 Hard Drive - OEM
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136012&Tpk=WD1500ADFD
179.99 * 15 = 2699.85
LSI LOGIC LSI00100 PCI-X SATA / SAS SAS3442X-R KIT 3Gb/s 8-port IR RAID
0/1/1E/10E - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816118030
289.99 * 2 = 579.98
FULLY OUTFITTED DISK NODE TOTAL
4652.79 for 2.25T of storage on 15 spindles. I specifically
chose the best price/storage disks and not the biggest disks because
odds are you don't need huge volumes of storage but need good
performance instead. The biggest part of performance these days is all
in the number of spindles. I would recommend buying two of these setups
and mirroring across them for redundancy or mirroring across pairs of
drives in one of these systems which would give you 1T of storage and a
hot spare. Definitely DO NOT just go and RAID5 this whole thing into one
big volume. Performance will suck and you are far more likely to lose
your data on such a large RAID set.
Using commodity ethernet switches (something GOOD like Cisco or HP and
definitely not Dell, Linksys, Netgear etc) you've got a great SAN
without having to get into the expense of buying fibrechannel HBA's,
fibrechannel switches, dealing with the drivers, and dealing with the
fibrechannel learning curve. You already know how to set up ethernet and
have ethernet infrastructure. Might as well capitalize on that
investment. Since it is a Linux box dedicated to providing disk storage
you can manage/monitor it the same way you do with all of your other
Linux boxes.
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