At Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:12:27 +0200 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm looking at using Linux as a NAS / SAN device, and would like some > input from other's who have done this before? > > How would it compare to commercial SAN devices, Thecus N8800SAS > (http://www.thecus.com/products_over.php?cid=11&pid=177&set_language=english) > or something similar to these? > > I would probably use hardware RAID 10, and could go with either SAS / > SATA, and then probably offer iSCSI, Samba. NFS & rsync. > In terms of servers hardware, well either Tyan / SuperMicro / Intel / > Dell would be fine as well. But, my question is rather from a linux > point of view, how would Linux compare to dedicated NAS devices, in > terms of the OS managing the device? I think many dedicated NAS devices, are in fact Linux machines, using an embedded Linux system. > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Download the Model Railroad System http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Binaries for Linux and MS-Windows heller at deepsoft.com -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ModelRailroadSystem/