I don't know about performance, but my Drobo is frakking awesome
(www.drobo.com).

-Lon

On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 7:04 AM, Kieran Kelleher <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Looking for suggestions for an economical (< $1000) "poor man's" RAID 1+0
> 4-drive storage solution for a dual 2.0 G5 Xserve that must be used as a
> dedicated database server. It is a cluster node model with just one
> hard-drive bay.
>
> It has Firewire 800 ports and 2 PCI-X slots. One PCI slot has a video card,
> one is empty.
>
> I was thinking possibly of a esata PCIX card with a OWC 4-drive hardware
> RAID rack unit:
> http://www.datoptic.com/cgi-bin/web.cgi?product=eSATA_pcix&detail=yes  - $99
> http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/hard-drives/RAID/Rack_Mount/FireWire_eSATA_USB2_RAID
>   -   $850 (includes 4 x 500GB enterprise hard drives)
>
> There will be 2 slaves continuously replicating for additional data
> protection.
>
> Any thoughts or other suggestions?
>
> Regards, Kieran
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