Re: 8TB of externalstorage?

Arun Khan <[email protected]>
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Wanted to share what I know as I have done some research in the 10-24
TB storage space (NAS on 1Ge and 10Ge fabric).

Supermicro and Tyan make bare bones storage system with various
options for net connectivity, duplex RAID cards etc. with 12/16/24 HDD
bays that can be expanded.  Some of the boxes can be converted to SAN
should your requirement change.  To the best of my knowledge they come
with Linux firmware.

Have more spindles in the array, go for 500GB rather than 1TB and
hardware RAID.  At one trade show I have seen a vendor demo cluster
with SAS switches, claiming better through put than FC.

HTH
-- Arun Khan
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