Hi Reid,
Thanks for the recommendations. I am surprised by the differences in
pricing ...... the Weibetech enclosure is $767 on amazon and the
rocstor enclosure is just $214 at amazon. Is the Weibetech really that
much better, or just overpriced? I will say one thing though, I like
their "Trayless" feature ..... no screws, frames or anything ... just
slide in the bare drive. OWC enclosure is $478 and has the advantage
of being a rack-mount enclosure (which suits this particular
situation). Both the OWC and the Weibetech use the exact same RAID
controller, the Oxford 936. The rocstor does not say what controller,
but it is different I think since the RAID choices are very different
to the other two.
-Kieran
On Dec 14, 2009, at 12:47 PM, ACN wrote:
Run, don't walk, away from the Drobo. While the later Firewire
based models may have improved, our interaction with the first gen
models went like this... Plug unit in. Trust your data to it. Have
no data. Let me put it another way. Drobo came to us for a little
dog and pony show. They left us our NFR and before the rep made it
to the elevator, we broke it so bad he took it back. This is a true
story. On of my hardware guys killed the unit in less than 5
minutes while doing the supposedly supported drive swap.
The OWC device looks nice if you need rack mount storage (I've had
no experience with it). If you are set on a 4 drive unit, we
recommend for our customers either: ArticRoc (http://www.rocstor.com/Products/arcticroc-4t.html
), the RTX-400 (http://www.wiebetech.com/products/RTX400QR.php), or
the HDElement (http://www.caldigit.com/HDElement/). The CalDigit
stuff we usually use for video customers so you are likely not
looking for that type of transactional storage. The others have
proven to be flexible and reliable.
Stay away from the Lacie stuff. Again, many bad experiences
(although they now have a tempting rack mount unit for FC but the
price is likely too high for your needs). The MyBook drives are
also not high on my recommend list.
Hope this helps
R-
On Dec 14, 2009, at 9:04 AM, Kieran Kelleher 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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