Hi!Mind something about Drobo... although it may be cool as a consumer product, it's a little too "magic" for my taste. I doubt you can have enough control over it to configure it in the RAID mode you want, and what data is in what disk. But I might be wrong.
Yours Miguel Arroz On 2009/12/14, at 16:51, Kieran Kelleher wrote:
Lon,Looks very interesting .... which model drobo are you using and how are you interfacing to your server?-Kieran On Dec 14, 2009, at 11:44 AM, Lon Varscsak wrote:I don't know about performance, but my Drobo is frakking awesome (www.drobo.com). -LonOn 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 adedicated 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 hardwareRAID rack unit:http://www.datoptic.com/cgi-bin/web.cgi?product=eSATA_pcix&detail=yes - $99http://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 _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.Webobjects-deploy mailing list ([email protected] )Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-deploy/varscsak%40smarthealth.com This email sent to [email protected]_______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.Webobjects-deploy mailing list (Webobjects- [email protected])Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-deploy/arroz%40guiamac.com This email sent to [email protected]
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