Re: Linux NAS like Solution

2005-03-12 Thread Miki Lewinger
Shalom Baruch. I have been using a server with 3ware SATA raid for a year and a half now, and a Silicon something or other (built in with dell servers), on a variety of IDE RAID 0,1 and 5 levels. As you said: IDE is unreliable; I have experienced a 2 out of 10 disk failures. You can't beat IDE

Re: Linux NAS like Solution

2005-03-12 Thread Michael Green
On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 10:49:17 +0200, Tzafrir Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you refer to a NAS that costs 2000$ as referred to in this thread or to a high-end NAS such as the one you use? Obviously I had our NAS system in my mind while I was writing, but I honestly belive that any dedicated

Re: Linux NAS like Solution

2005-03-11 Thread Michael Green
I agree with Ariel. I'm administering NetApp NAS (relatevely high-end one I must admit) here. I've seen also SATA Raids baised on Intel server boards. You just cannot compare first to the second. In my opinion no Linux with whatever RAID will perform as good as a dedicated NAS machine that was

Linux NAS like Solution

2005-03-10 Thread Baruch Shpirer
Title: Linux NAS like Solution Hi, I have been fiddling for the last 2 weeks with idea of saving my company more then 2000$ and making my own kind of NAS like solution via linux. My considerations were highly to maintain the list of standard features NAS solution hold today including

Re: Linux NAS like Solution

2005-03-10 Thread Gilboa Davara
Title: Linux NAS like Solution See inline. On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 11:07 +0200, Baruch Shpirer wrote: Hotswap can be done both in SATA and SCSI Both LSI and 3ware can do hotswap (and hotspare) SATA would be the cheap and risky solution where as SCSI is more expensive and reliable

RE: Linux NAS like Solution

2005-03-10 Thread Gilboa Davara
the RAID and Linux tools without changing anything. -Original Message- From: Gilboa Davara [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 1:12 PM To: Baruch Shpirer Cc: linux-il@linux.org.il Subject: Re: Linux NAS like Solution

Re: Linux NAS like Solution

2005-03-10 Thread Ariel Biener
On Thursday 10 March 2005 11:07, Baruch Shpirer wrote: Hi, I have been fiddling for the last 2 weeks with idea of saving my company more then 2000$ and making my own kind of NAS like solution via linux. My considerations were highly to maintain the list of standard features NAS solution hold

Re: Linux NAS like Solution

2005-03-10 Thread Marc A. Volovic
Ariel Biener wrote: Unless this $2k is absolutely critical, I suggest you go for a supported and full featured NAS solution. What solutions exactly are $2k more expensive than what you propose ? None of the good ones are in that price range, and I am talking about prices for university,

RE: Linux NAS like Solution

2005-03-10 Thread Baruch Shpirer
- From: Marc A. Volovic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 9:18 PM To: Ariel Biener Cc: Baruch Shpirer; linux-il@linux.org.il Subject: Re: Linux NAS like Solution Ariel Biener wrote: Unless this $2k is absolutely critical, I suggest you go for a supported and full featured