"Poor" man's NAS

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, Jun 08, 2006, Michael Hipp wrote:
...

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

The folks at Pogo Linux seem to think so.  I think they're
primarily using 3ware controllers.

There are SATA drives built for this type of operation (e.g.
Western Digital Raptors) that allegedly are similar to SCSI in
their quality.

You might want to check out the FreeNAS software.  It's BSD
based, but I wouldn't let that stop me (our longest uptime
machine here is a FreeBSD 4.8 box that's been up 715 days).

http://www.freenas.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=20&Itemid=32

Bill
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