[CentOS] I need storage server advice

Ross S. W. Walker wrote:
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> Take these benchmarks with a grain of salt.
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and, more importantly, for the thread at hand, this guy wants an ARCHIVE 
server, where performance is quite secondary, reliablity and data 
retention are more important.

If he had the budget, I'd be suggesting looking at something like 
Copan's MAID system.