With the rise of 1.5TB and 2.0TB drives in the past couple of years,
I think a SAN (or NAS) for ~4TB might be overkill.
If you have the empty drive bays, then for ~$1000 you could put in a
few disks and just use Linux's software RAID. Four 2.0TB SATA disks
could give you 4TB of RAID1 or RAID6.
If you're only up to 150GB so far, consider an interim setup of just
adding a couple of drives. For less than $500 you could put in 2TB of
RAID1 (dual disk) storage space. By the time that fills up, petabyte
Flash drives will be available :)
--Derek
On 10/13/2009 02:06 PM, John Aldrich wrote:
thanks for the info folks. We are looking for about 3-5 Tb of storage,
connected to our two servers via ISCSI and shared out from the servers.
Mainly just files at this point, but possibly also email (probably using
Kerio mail server, if I have my way!)
We currently are using about 150 or so Gb, but I want to leave plenty of
room for expansion and for email storage. :-)
We have Gigabit fiber between my office and the building where I was planning
on putting our storage appliance, so there's plenty of bandwidth. We have 5
Mb metro E at our "backup" location and currently only 2 Mb Metro-E at the
main location, but that's easily fixed with a phone call to order more
bandwidth. :-)
