On 6/30/10, Christopher Chan <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk> wrote: > So cut appropriate corners to fit. Just not like Backblaze. Their's is > decidedly crap hobbled together. With the kind of budget I have to work with, things are already looking very rounded already. >> I'm just thankful they paid for a Gigabit switch previously! > D-Link? :-D. I had to get D-Links when money was a bit tighter but now I > have HP Procurve 9210al switches. > > /me stomps on Cisco crap. D-Link had always been decent to me so that's what I usually go for if available. I've heard people mentioned the HP ProCurves for many years as really good stuff but I also thought Cisco was the industry standard? >>> No, not putting Centos 5 on that. :-( Not trusting raid5/6. >>> raidz2/raidz3 it is going to be. >> >> Solaris? > > Either OpenSolaris or Nexenta. Hey, I thought we were supposed to be > running cheap aka freeloading? I am, not that I wouldn't prefer to make the client pay for things so that I can actually get somebody who knows the thing to config/fix it. So it's always good, at least IMO, to know what the paid options are if the clients ever cough up the budget for that. But with the local SME mentality, cheap is usually the first thing they want to see until they learnt their lesson like losing data without RAID (it's amazing how many "servers" I come across without even RAID 1) or losing work without UPS.