Rudi Ahlers wrote: > nate wrote: >> Rudi Ahlers wrote: >> >> >>> This raises an interesting question. What do you do in this kind of >>> scenario? How do you upgrade a NAS / SAN with say 5 / 10 TB worth of >>> data? > Nate, what EXACTLY does that have todo with the topic? We're talking > about a self-build NAS / SAN running on Linux (and UNIX), NOT a > commercial product Everything I believe. Everything is a commercial product unless your building the circuit boards from scratch. Your specific question was how do you upgrade a NAS / SAN with say 5 / 10TB worth of data? My answer is you build one that can be upgraded online. And the array I mentioned previously runs on Debian. The largest EMC arrays run on Linux as well. While EMC won't let you self-build their high end systems, there are other companies that sell SAN/NAS gear that runs on Linux that will let you "self build". nate