Hi,
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Robert Heller Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 12:23 AM To: CentOS mailing list Cc: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] using Linux as a NAS / SAN device
At Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:12:27 +0200 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org 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=... nglish) 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?
I think many dedicated NAS devices, are in fact Linux machines, using an embedded Linux system.
-- Just a word of caution. I had a simarly question: building one self, or buyding dedicated hw. Looked through several specs of different boxes, and decided for an ICY-box, that can hold two sata-disks, raid0/raid1/jbod, has an GB-ethernet interface and capable of doing NFS. (which is actually an Linux-box)
However, the box is as slow as a proverbial civil-servant, although the link is realy set to GB, it just might as well have been 100MB. And even that its not capable of filling to the max. (60Mb) Found out (afterwards ;-) on the relevant product mailing lists that it's the max the box can do.
hans
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On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 11:28 AM, J.Witvliet@mindef.nl wrote:
Hi,
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Robert Heller Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 12:23 AM To: CentOS mailing list Cc: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] using Linux as a NAS / SAN device
At Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:12:27 +0200 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org 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=... nglish) 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?
I think many dedicated NAS devices, are in fact Linux machines, using an embedded Linux system.
-- Just a word of caution. I had a simarly question: building one self, or buyding dedicated hw. Looked through several specs of different boxes, and decided for an ICY-box, that can hold two sata-disks, raid0/raid1/jbod, has an GB-ethernet interface and capable of doing NFS. (which is actually an Linux-box)
However, the box is as slow as a proverbial civil-servant, although the link is realy set to GB, it just might as well have been 100MB. And even that its not capable of filling to the max. (60Mb) Found out (afterwards ;-) on the relevant product mailing lists that it's the max the box can do.
hans
We have decided to get the Thecus 8800N NAS devices at the end of the day, since they're about 40% cheaper than having to build one. They run a Linux based OS, and uses software RAID, but I can't build a new server at this price, even with software RAID.
We have decided to get the Thecus 8800N NAS devices at the end of the day, since they're about 40% cheaper than having to build one. They run a Linux based OS, and uses software RAID, but I can't build a new server at this price, even with software RAID.
Hey Rudi, I'm finding myself tracing your footsteps here as we are looking at going down a similar path.
How is that Thecus working out for you?
I googled it and hit this on Tigert Direct
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=4...
though it is not clear to me how many drives that comes with - looks like only 1 I guess.
thanks, -Alan
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 7:15 PM, Alan McKay alan.mckay@gmail.com wrote:
We have decided to get the Thecus 8800N NAS devices at the end of the day, since they're about 40% cheaper than having to build one. They run a Linux based OS, and uses software RAID, but I can't build a new server at this price, even with software RAID.
Hey Rudi, I'm finding myself tracing your footsteps here as we are looking at going down a similar path.
How is that Thecus working out for you?
I googled it and hit this on Tigert Direct
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=4...
though it is not clear to me how many drives that comes with - looks like only 1 I guess.
thanks, -Alan
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Hi Alan,
The client who would have used this pulled out on number 99, so I haven't actually unpacked the NAS and used it.... We shipped it back to the suppliers.
But from that I can see on the demo units, it's very easy to use and works quite well as an off-the-shelf option. Price wise, I couldn't put together a 2U SuperMicro with 8 drives at the same price. This device would cost me about 15 - 20% cheaper than building a similar system with a SuperMicro server + 8 drives, in our country.
Here's the product URL: http://www.thecus.com/products_over.php?cid=11&pid=177&set_language=...
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Alan McKay -
J.Witvliet＠MINDEF.NL -
Rudi Ahlers