If you settle for a black box appliance, then you'll want to get enough space to start out with. With 150GB in use today, I would expect you to stay under 3TB for several years. Don't try to plan too far out because the price and technology will drastically change within that time period anyway.
If you want to spend a little more now, you can get something that will expand, and you can start out with 1TB or 2TB in each array. This will keep your costs down somewhat, but tie you to the same chassis as you grow, which might not be that much of an advantage in another 2 years. I would go for the first option in your case. With that plan, you can stay well under $40K Take a look at the following vendors for low-maintenance storage appliances: - http://www.iqstor.com/ - http://www.istor.com/products/is512.cfm There are others. You will not have every feature that the big boys have, but for your budget and needs, you don't want to pay for that either. *ASB *(My XeeSM Profile) <http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker> *Providing Competitive Advantage through Effective IT Leadership* On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 10:32 AM, John Aldrich <[email protected] > wrote: > I’m actually using about 150 Gigabytes. I was wanting to “future proof” > somewhat with the idea that I might be bringing email in-house next year as > well and I didn’t want to run low on space. But you have a good point that > maybe I don’t need 5 TB array to begin with. Maybe I can buy like a 1.5 TB > or 2 TB and just add drives as needed… that’s one argument in favor of the > Compellent solution – you can just add drives to the array as needed… of > course I have yet to see the price tag on their proposal. J > > > > [image: John-Aldrich][image: Tile-Tools] > > > > *From:* Jonathan Link [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Wednesday, October 28, 2009 10:25 AM > > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: SAN solutions > > > > In your previous discussions you mentioned that you're not using anywhere > near 5 TB now. IIRC it was 1.5? I would suggest that you're overbuying > storage upfront. The entire idea behind a SAN is that you allocate (and > purchase) storage as it is needed. I purchased a 2 TB (raw) EqualLogic > array in April with the idea that I would add additional storage in the > future (next year). > > > > > > On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 1:48 PM, John Aldrich < > [email protected]> wrote: > > Yeah… the quote I got from Dell was MSRP because I’m working with a VAR and > they won’t quote against themselves. J > > > > [image: John-Aldrich][image: Tile-Tools] > > > > *From:* N Parr [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Tuesday, October 27, 2009 1:23 PM > > > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* RE: SAN solutions > > > > Probably not apples to apples but I had a quote for an 8TB EQ array for > well less than 20 a few months ago. > > > ------------------------------ > > *From:* John Aldrich [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Tuesday, October 27, 2009 12:05 PM > > > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* RE: SAN solutions > > Yeah… but I have a feeling that the Compellent solution may be lower cost. > J I got an MSRP on an Equallogic system… $42K for a 5 Tb useable system… > No way I’m going to be able to afford two of those to do D/R. L > > > > [image: John-Aldrich][image: Tile-Tools] > > > > *From:* Brian Desmond [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Tuesday, October 27, 2009 12:53 PM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* RE: SAN solutions > > > > *Lefthand (Bought by HP) and Equalogic (bought by Dell) play in this space > as well. * > > * * > > *Thanks,* > > *Brian Desmond* > > *[email protected]* > > * * > > *c - 312.731.3132* > > * * > > *From:* John Aldrich [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Tuesday, October 27, 2009 11:28 AM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* SAN solutions > > > > Anyone know anything about a SAN manufacturer called Compellent? I just had > a webinar with them and they seem like they’re pretty good. They have > separate drive chassis and controllers, with the controller being > essentially a server class machine. Anyway, just thought I’d ask in here if > anyone had any experience with them. > > > > [image: John-Aldrich][image: Tile-Tools] > > > > > > > > > > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 8.5.423 / Virus Database: 270.14.34/2462 - Release Date: 10/27/09 > 07:38:00 > > > > > > > > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 8.5.423 / Virus Database: 270.14.34/2462 - Release Date: 10/27/09 > 07:38:00 > > > > > > > > > > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 8.5.423 / Virus Database: 270.14.36/2465 - Release Date: 10/28/09 > 09:34:00 > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
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