Hello NLUG, Thanks to Jerry Perkins (for invaluable guidance on installing Debian server) and thanks to NLUG we are getting a direly needed backup / archive system in place. I'll let Jerry share his meticulous notes on the details. Interestingly, due to transportation issues, Jerry has been guiding me via phone and email, so I am seeing all the details, that I might not otherwise see if he were present doing all the implementing.
For the archive portion of the project (190TB of video, growing by 2TB per month), I was thinking of a JBOD array (or multiple lesser arrays). I've been advised against RAID, as this won't be the only existing archive and due to length of time for RAID rebuild in the event of a drive failure. At our December meeting Vince mentioned something important if not critical to consider, that we may see a flood of cheaper HDDs hit the market. Indeed, Seagate's former 5yr warranty is no longer; now it's one year. We currently put to use a Dell R220 with miniSAS, USB3, and dual ethernet ports; maybe I should add eSATA? I know that some of you having worked at DELL don't hold their hardware in high regard; this was just bought a while back (for an LTO6 system still to be implemented... later) Anyone with knowledge and experience on different HDD array hardware, please advise. This help is saving us thousands of dollars in (in$ulting) IT con$ulting. Thank you kindly- M PS I can still come video the meetings - just have to bolt at 7:02pm - anything to help keep NLUG going. I'd be drowning without it. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
