Re: [CentOS] settings up cheap a NAS / SAN server, is it possible?

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Steve Thompson Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2008 8:39 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] settings up cheap a NAS / SAN server, is it possible?

A cheap server: there are many different values of cheap; it all depends on what you need it for.

Yupp, break down the requirements into the following three options:

• Good
• Fast
• Cheap

Pick any *two*. You can never ever have all three. It's a natural law or something. 8-)

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Sure, SATA isn't as fast as SCSI, so I sacrifice that, but SCSI won't give me the same space (3TB) as SATA either. So, a gigabyte mobo + 6x 1TB SATA HDD's + 4GB RAM + 2.8Ghz Core 2 Duo isn't too bad?