[CentOS] 10+ TB RAID experiences?

Centos centos at unixplanet.biz
Wed Aug 22 15:31:37 UTC 2007


may I ask what kind of problem you had with IBM storages ?


Tomasz Napiera?a wrote:
> On Wednesday 22 August 2007 15:56:12 Scott Ehrlich wrote:
>   
>> I'm looking for RAID options for at least 10 TB to attach to a Dell
>> PowerEdge 2950 running RHEL 5 64-bit Server.
>>
>> The system will act as a single sign-on server for XP and Linux, thus
>> storing user's data from mounted home directories exported from the server
>> to various workstations.  It may also house a database.    I'll need a
>> storage solution starting at least 10 TB.
>>     
>
> 3PAR - most innovative storage solution on the market at the moment, and thier 
> stuff absolutely rocks. Unfortunately I don't know the costs, but technically 
> it's brilliant.
>
>   
>> Most of the SAS devices I've seen go up to 2 TB.  Looking at the IBM
>> System Storage devices, for example, they offer 12 TB and up.
>> I'm not sure of the budget, so I'll discount cost for now.
>>
>> How good are IBM's rack RAID devices?   I'm just looking at their System
>> Storage DS4xxx line.
>>     
>
> We had lot of problems problems with IBM storage, but it's probably my 
> personal feeling ;)
>
>   
>> How about EMC?  Network Appliance?    Clariion?
>>     
>
> Don't have personal experience.
>
>   




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