James Matthews wrote: > Hi, > > I need to deploy some network storage and I want to know which "type" your > would recommend. The disks are Raid 10 but the storage needs to be remote > (within a private network) What sort of workload? For lowest latency of course I'd suggest a private 10GbE network with jumbo frames, keep the systems on the same switches, and use a purpose built high performance NAS system with 15k RPM SAS/Fiber disks and very large(4GB+) mirrored write cache rather then trying to roll your own. nate