On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 10:50 PM, James A. Peltier <jpeltier at fas.sfu.ca> wrote: > We use Dell 2950s with an MD3000 or MD1000 depending on OS. For our > Solaris NAS node we use the MD1000 for CentOS we use the MD3000 because of > the hardware RAID controller. Gives us 15TB of RAW disk space with 1TB > drives plus room for 4-5 additional drives (based on configuration) in the > chassis. Seconded. Also you can chain a couple of MD1000s at the back of the MD3000 to get even more storage over SAS. We have a number of those with the upstream OS installed but usually a single MD3000 is enough for what we use them for (mainly Oracle DB server or VMWare hosts). We tend to split the storage between two nodes and then do OCFS2. -- Hakan (m1fcj) - http://www.hititgunesi.org