On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 11:28 AM, <J.Witvliet at mindef.nl> wrote: > Hi, > > -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On > Behalf Of Robert Heller > Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 12:23 AM > To: CentOS mailing list > Cc: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] using Linux as a NAS / SAN device > > 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=e >> nglish) >> 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. > > -- > Just a word of caution. > I had a simarly question: building one self, or buyding dedicated hw. > Looked through several specs of different boxes, and decided for an > ICY-box, that can hold two sata-disks, raid0/raid1/jbod, has an > GB-ethernet interface and capable of doing NFS. (which is actually an > Linux-box) > > However, the box is as slow as a proverbial civil-servant, although the > link is realy set to GB, it just might as well have been 100MB. And even > that its not capable of filling to the max. (60Mb) > Found out (afterwards ;-) on the relevant product mailing lists that > it's the max the box can do. > > hans > > ______________________________________________________________________ We have decided to get the Thecus 8800N NAS devices at the end of the day, since they're about 40% cheaper than having to build one. They run a Linux based OS, and uses software RAID, but I can't build a new server at this price, even with software RAID. -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers CEO, SoftDux Hosting Web: http://www.SoftDux.com Office: 087 805 9573 Cell: 082 554 7532