If you really want to get into DIY, this looks like a fun place to start: http://www.heartlandcomputers.com/chenbro-rm91250-black-extended-atx-ceb-rackmount-9u-chassis-with-1620w-psu/
It's just what it sounds like - an empty 9U rackmount chassis, with fifty drive bays. Add your own motherboard, fifty SATA cables, giant octopus drive controllers... Or, if you hate fiddling with the cables, eRacks will sell you one pre-assembled: http://eracks.com/products/storage-servers-nas/NAS50/ You could then install something like OpenFiler, and have a field day. David Smith From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Craig Cook Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 8:07 AM To: LOPSA Tech Subject: [lopsa-tech] What to use for 200TB of Dev/QA storage? We have around 200TB of dev/QA storage that is across 3 SAN's. (EMC VMAX and IBM XIV's) Servers are AIX, Solaris and VMware. We are looking to replace it with cheaper storage. I would be interested in build-your-own-NAS solutions, but I am not sure what to start looking at. (Netapp is too expensive) Failing that, what does a cheap SAN look like? We don't need SAN replication, or many fancy features. Any ideas? Thanks Craig
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