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

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 04:44:22PM -0500, William Park wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 03:35:13PM -0500, William Park 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.
> > 
> > 1.  <http://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=14_207&item_id=040360>
> >     8-bay USB3 external from Mediasonic.
> > 
> > 2.  Get a motherboard with 8+ SATA ports and NFS mount.  Since this is
> >     stand-alone system, they need to know how to maintain it, or pay for
> >     support.
> 
> 3.  <http://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=27_1035_347&item_id=056602>
>     Pre-built 8-bay embedded Linux box from QNAP.  Probably, least
>     amount of work for you and your client.

But gigabit is so slow.

Now if all you want is a fileserver for a network, then sure.  But if
you want decent performance disk for a server, then it's a crappy option.

-- 
Len Sorensen
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