Re: CPU & RAM in a storage box

I happen to have an IBM SAN storage at home, so I am familiar with IBM line of storage products. The EXP3000 is an expansion to IBM storage, which can perform for itself (JBoD), however - it contains no CPU, or RAID abilities internally. You will have to connect it to an additional server (1U, I as

Re: CPU & RAM in a storage box

On top of rpath Linux, which is the root of all evil. Also - although I have implemented quite a few of these, OpenFiler suffers from various bugs and shortcomings. Still - in the "free like beer" area - it is good enough for most purposes. Ez On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 1:08 AM, Amos Shapira wrote:

Re: CPU & RAM in a storage box

2010/9/10 Hetz Ben Hamo > > Hi people, > I'm planning to add some big storage solution to my VPS business. I did some > checking and calculated the costs, and figured out that if I want to have a > decent 12TB solution NAS box, it would be best if I would roll my own. (12 TB > before all the RA

Re: CPU & RAM in a storage box

Hi, 2010/9/9 Etzion Bar-Noy > This is a joke, right? You want someone to host your system, which, by > design, will not be rack-mountable, and would be large, due to the amount of > disks you are to place there. It is possible, but extremely expensive to > host a non-1-U server nowadays. Who wou

Re: CPU & RAM in a storage box

This is a joke, right? You want someone to host your system, which, by design, will not be rack-mountable, and would be large, due to the amount of disks you are to place there. It is possible, but extremely expensive to host a non-1-U server nowadays. Who would "give" it to you? An industrial-gra

Re: CPU & RAM in a storage box

Hi, 2010/9/9 geoffrey mendelson > > On Sep 9, 2010, at 6:35 PM, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > > >> I'm planning to add some big storage solution to my VPS business. I did >> some checking and calculated the costs, and figured out that if I want to >> have a decent 12TB solution NAS box, it would be bes

RE: CPU & RAM in a storage box

I am using a dual core machine with 1GB ram just for the OS even though its not scratching the 50% usage My raid controller is 3ware 9550SX-12LP 64-bit/133MHz PCI-X with 256 MB DDR2 400 memory with ECC protection supporting all raid types and with RISC PowerPC cpu to provide real HW raid This host

Re: CPU & RAM in a storage box

Hi Hetz, My experience is with raid backup servers, that need to keep data but don't have to be the fastest. I wouldn't go so far with it at the start. Take some old server box. Buy a killer power supply for hard drives stability. Now test the setup using mdadm as raid. This will most likely be go

Re: CPU & RAM in a storage box

On Sep 9, 2010, at 6:35 PM, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: I'm planning to add some big storage solution to my VPS business. I did some checking and calculated the costs, and figured out that if I want to have a decent 12TB solution NAS box, it would be best if I would roll my own. (12 TB before a

CPU & RAM in a storage box

Hi people, I'm planning to add some big storage solution to my VPS business. I did some checking and calculated the costs, and figured out that if I want to have a decent 12TB solution NAS box, it would be best if I would roll my own. (12 TB before all the RAID stuff, after that it