Richard Zimmerman wrote:
Most servers can fit only 2.5" disks these days. I keep wondering what everyone is doing about storage.
The DL20 gen9 I bought was setup LFF (3.5")
The DL380 gen9 could be either SFF (2.5) or LFF. I had to buy SFF for our new server due I was told to spec / build it exact to vendor recommendation.
To better? Answer this. Agreed, I'm not a fanboy of 2.5" stuff in enterprise equipment. To me a better but more costly answer would be setup a LFF SAN server and go from there.
My employer is a SMB (60 people?) and our storage is exploding at times. SAN's can give more economical storage and flexibility. Especially since were considering fail-over scenarios for not only our Windows ERP software but our all Linux based :) file servers.
Storage.... Ok, I'll give a plug to one of our favorite vendors: AC&NC, who manufacture JetStor.They're RAID appliances, very nice internal webserver to manages, and yes, it can send emails. The prices are *very* reasonable, cheaper than Dell, or HP, or even NetApp. Lessee, we just bought a couple, one for a new system, one for a backup thereof. Each of them ran just over $12k, with 12 10TB SAS drives, and a DAS card. And they are both reliable and *last*. We did just finally retire the one pair that had a true SCSI connection....
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