In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,Jason Edgecombe writes: >next couple of years. Fibre channel seems all the rage, but it's quite >expensive. I'm open to any and all feedback. What works? What doesn't? >What offers the best bang for the buck on an OpenAFS server?
i went pretty cheap last time. i am using solaris volume manager raid1's on some built-in sata drives on solaris 10. a hardware raid might handle disk failures easier (just replace the drive) but nice hardware raids can be fairly expensive. svm lets you round-robin read accesses (per thread) between the mirrors which can potentially boost read performance a bit. its cheap enough that adding another x86 server isnt very expensive. each server here fits into 1U and provides +400G. of course, we are only supporting a couple hundred users. >This is for an academic environment that fills both academic and >research needs. Researchers are asking for lots of AFS space (200GB+). >Of course this needs to be backed up as well. sata drives just keep getting bigger, so you can pick up a 350GB or 500GB drive fairly cheap. you can finally get a 5-year warranty on some sata drives which makes them fairly attractive. _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
