>> Option 1) 2 servers each having 2.0TB raid disk with SAS >> drives, 2GB ram and standard other features. > > If going down this road, why not look into getting one of > those fancy new storage enclosures where the RAID is built > into the enclosure and can allow 2 servers to simultaneously > access the arrays with full battery backed write-back cache? > What is available for Linux in this department?