Bowie Bailey wrote: > Feizhou wrote: >>>> 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? > > http://www.coraid.com/ > > These are relatively inexpensive network storage boxes using SATA drives > and AoE (ATA over Ethernet) connection to the server. Drivers build > easily on CentOS. Very interesting. > > Just make sure you get drives that are on their compatible list. This > may not be as much of an issue now, but I had some problems with drives > being marked bad and dropped out of the array when I first set up mine a > couple of years ago. This was caused by firmware incompatibilities and > fixed by upgrading the drive firmware. Once this was fixed, everything > has worked flawlessly since. > Thank you for the link and the heads up!