On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:37:36 -0600 Rahul Nabar <[email protected]> wrote:
> Discussions that I read on this list in the last couple of months > tempt me to do away with hardware RAID entirely for a new > mini-storage-project I have to do. I am thinking of going for a JBOD > with Linux Software RAID via mdadm. Hardware RAID just doesn't have > the original awesomeness that it had me mesmerized with. > > Any recommendations for a good JBOD? The requirements are simple. 5 > Terabytes total capacity. SATA drives. Don't need high performance: > these are for archival home dirs. No active jobs run from this > storage. Reliability and low price are key. Some kind of > Direct-Attached Storage box. RAID5 or RAID6 maybe. Already have a > pretty fast 8 core server with lots of RAM that I can hook this up to. > Neither bandwidth nor IOPS need to be terribly high. Most of the data > here is pretty static and not often moved around. > > One of the things I notice is that 5 Terabytes seems too low-end these > days. Can't find many solutions tailored to this size. Most come with > 12 or 16 bays etc. which seems excessive for this application. > Does it need to be rack-mount? What kind of interface? If performance is really not an issue, a consumer-level NAS box is probably your cheapest option. A QNap TS-410 is ~$450 plus 4 x 2TB drives... -- Alex Chekholko [email protected] _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
