Suggestions for a 10-20TB linux compatible storage array ?

[Thomas Milne]

On 2013-02-28 10:41 AM, "Lennart Sorensen" <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org>
wrote:
>
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 07:16:19AM -0500, Dave Cramer wrote:
> > Customer is looking for something under 5k, connected via USB, but I
think
> > the connection type is flexible.
>
> USB?  Are they mad?  USB is often unreliable and it is slow.  I tried
> connecting a 4.5TB external storage via USB because it was simple, and
> it kept dropping off the bus under load a few times a day.  Switching to
> eSATA on the same box made it perfectly reliable and much much faster.
>
> USB3 should be better, but not too many machines have that yet.  Could be
> added of course.
>
> USB2 would take close to 4 days to transfer 10TB.
>
> Something like this might do the job:
>
http://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=14_207&item_id=040363
>
> eSATA, USB3 are both nice options (and USB2 compatible should you
> want to).  Putting in 8x2TB or 3TB should give you 14 or 21TB storage
> with RAID5.
>
> $400 for the box + 8 x $160 (WD Red 3TB) = $1680 for 21TB RAID5
> $400 for the box + 8 x $120 (WD Red 2TB) = $1360 for 14TB RAID5
>
> A USB3 or eSATA controller if needed should be cheap.

Wouldn't that be sweet connected to the Cubox?

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