On Oct 29, 2010, at 8:29 PM, Matt Simmons wrote: > On the other hand, if I had to go with a general purpose cheap array, > it would be hard to pick between ATAoE and the Drobo Elite iSCSI > implementation. BeyondRAID is like magic.
I know some of the top experts in the storage system field -- being friends and a former co-worker with someone like W. Curtis Preston gets you into a lot of places (and discussions) that you would never have seen before. When the Drobo stuff first came out, Curtis was all over it -- he thought it was the best thing since sliced bread. Now that we've had a chance to hear from people who have their hands very deep into filesystem code at various vendors, and we've learned a bit about the magic that happens behind the curtains, I wish I hadn't bought mine. I wish I had gone with Infrant ReadyNAS instead. Maybe not a slick, nor as magical, but a lot less spit-and-bailing-wire-and-lots-of-prayer underneath the hood. And a lot less stuff under the hood that scares the bejesus out of guys who really know their filesystem code backwards and forwards. These days, something like FreeNAS with running ZFS is looking mighty nice for the SOHO market. I just wish someone would package something like this into a nifty hardware box like Drobo has -- it wouldn't need much CPU and I think it could handle the data protection and data migration almost as well as Drobo makes it look. -- Brad Knowles <[email protected]> LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
