Rudi Ahlers wrote:
Hi,
I'm looking at using Linux as a NAS / SAN device, and would like some input from other's who have done this before?
How would it compare to commercial SAN devices, Thecus N8800SAS (http://www.thecus.com/products_over.php?cid=11&pid=177&set_language=...) or something similar to these?
I would probably use hardware RAID 10, and could go with either SAS / SATA, and then probably offer iSCSI, Samba. NFS & rsync. In terms of servers hardware, well either Tyan / SuperMicro / Intel / Dell would be fine as well. But, my question is rather from a linux point of view, how would Linux compare to dedicated NAS devices, in terms of the OS managing the device?
These aren't centos based - or even all linux, but the software-NAS players are: http://www.openfiler.com/ http://www.freenas.org/ http://www.nexenta.com/corp/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsectio...
Or you can just use a generic disto with separate configuration commands for each protocol.