What do y'all think about this bare-bones machine: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816152090
If I had 6x1Gb SATA and about 8 Gigs of RAM or so, do you think that would make a decent home-brew storage appliance? I'm reasonably certain I could get management to buy a copy of RedHat Enterprise O/S or something. The thing I don't know is whether this is a "fake raid" controller or a real RAID controller on-board. Also, could I use an add-on card to control the RAID instead of the on-board RAID? I did see that it does not support RAID 6, which I would like to do. :-) -----Original Message----- From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 12:50 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Home-brew SAN vs name-brand storage appliance On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 12:06 PM, John Aldrich <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't know enough about server hardware and RAID > controllers to be that comfortable with building my own. Given that, and your comments about where you live, etc., I think that may be the deciding factor: You may be better off paying for someone else (e.g., Dell) to give you a solution with service contract and (extra-cost) technical hand-holding. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.423 / Virus Database: 270.14.27/2453 - Release Date: 10/23/09 06:56:00 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
