[BBLISA] 10+ TB RAID experiences?

[Rudie, Tony]

We love NetApp.  Some of what we love might not interest you:  HA clustering and remote replication.  Other stuff probably does:  simple administration and maintenance, very knowledgeable tech support.  And I'll tell you, having snapshots for user homedirs is a HUGE win.  We almost never have to restore user files for them.  They go get them themselves, from the snapshots.

A NetApp would allow you to do NFS or CIFS export directly from the NetApp box, and also do iSCSI or FC attach for the big server for database stuff.  Might be a good fit.   


 - Tony Rudié 

-----Original Message-----
From: bblisa-bounces at bblisa.org [mailto:bblisa-bounces at bblisa.org] On Behalf Of Scott Ehrlich
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 9:57 AM
To: bblisa at bblisa.org
Subject: [BBLISA] 10+ TB RAID experiences?

A followup to the SCSI/SAS question -

I'm looking for RAID options for at least 10 TB to attach to a Dell PowerEdge 
2950 running RHEL 5 64-bit Server.

The system will act as a single sign-on server for XP and Linux, thus storing 
user's data from mounted home directories exported from the server to various 
workstations.  It may also house a database.    I'll need a storage solution 
starting at least 10 TB.

Most of the SAS devices I've seen go up to 2 TB.  Looking at the IBM System 
Storage devices, for example, they offer 12 TB and up.

I'm not sure of the budget, so I'll discount cost for now.

How good are IBM's rack RAID devices?   I'm just looking at their System 
Storage DS4xxx line.

How about EMC?  Network Appliance?    Clariion?

Quality of unit, reliability of unit andservice and support, overall cost of 
ownership?    Expandability?

Thanks for any and all insights.

Scott

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