on 8-27-2009 3:12 PM Rudi Ahlers spake the following: > 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? > Have you looked at the openfiler project? Runs on linux, and has fancy web management. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 258 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090828/6ac07ea6/attachment-0003.sig>