While I can surely relate to a company wanting me to do cheap sh!t but wanting reliability etc etc I can only point you to ASB's famous sig: "Fast, cheap, reliable. Pick two" Those wont be redundant and the performance is very bad (they are for home owners...). I can't see a DB application being thrilled with the potential latencies you will likely encounter not to mention the non redundancy of the disc's and power supplies. Keep in mind the duty cycle of those devices isn't meant to be 24x7 so they will probably get hot which = fail soon.
Don't envy your task, been there many times. jlc From: MarvinC [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2008 12:28 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: An alternate storage solution needed... I'm looking for an affordable solution to replace a failed disk array. The array had 7 drives that were configured as a RAID 5, totaling 100GB, and attached to a webserver. Both power supplies died on the server and now none of the data on those drives are accessible. This would include the company's websites. To make things worse the vendor that makes the power suppies, Martek, is based out of China and don't have any in stock. Unfortunately the company doesn't have any backups so they've come to grips with the fact that they'll have to move on without being able to recover or salvage any of that data. What I'm trying to do is provide an affordable replacement solution where the device hooks up to a web server and is seen as an attached drive for their websites which have MySQL databases. So I'm wondering if anyone have any opinions on using Shared Network Storage over NAS or SAN devices? From the looks of it the shared network storage devies fall inline with their immediate budget whereas the other two are more expensive. Here are a few devices I've come across: LinkStation Live 500GB Shared Network Storage Cost: $179.00 http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0256819 Iomega(r) StorCenter Network Hard Drive 1TB Cost: $309.00 http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0282051 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
