"Poor" man's NAS

[Net Llama!]

On Thu, 8 Jun 2006, Michael Hipp wrote:
> > 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.

They're alot better than they were a year ago.  As for server quality, its
hard to say for certain.

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