"Poor" man's NAS

[Michael Hipp]

> From: "Dominic Lepiane" <archangel at nibble.bz>
> To: "Linux tips and tricks" <linux-users at linux-sxs.org>
> Subject: "Poor" man's NAS
> Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 11:14:58 -0700
> 
> 
> Say a fellow wanted to get a multi-TB network file server running for under
> 10k, preferably close to 3k, what have folks here tried for large file
> servers on mostly commodity hardware?
> 
> I was looking at one of my local PC retailers and I think I can get:
> 
> Promise 8 SATA channel RAID card (PCI-Express x4)
> 8x 320GB SATA drives
> 8x Promise SATA hot-swap drive bays

Are SATA drives now considered to be "server quality". Conventional wisdom is that only SCSI is good enough for "real" production servers.

Opinions?

I need to build a server somewhat like you're spec'ing so the question isn't just academic. And the price of even one TB of SCSI makes me feel faint.

Thanks,
Michael