> I recently set up a NAS box for a customer, using a Promise chassis and 15 > 250GB drives, which resulted in 3.25TB real useful space and cost a total > of $6,000 (overall cost per GB: $1.85). These numbers include a hot spare > drive and the parity drive, so only 13 drives are "useful" and the box > should be really, really, really reliable.
This is true, but there is one problem in the disaster recovery universe that it does not resolve: offsite storage. If your backups are routinely kept in the same place as your servers, and you have a catastrophic event, you will have lost your data forever. Now, if your NAS is on the other end of a fast fiber connection a couple of miles down the road.... ;) Ben -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
