[Tfug] SANs (Was: Re: In need of hard drive info)

[Tom Rini]

On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 03:16:09PM -0800, keith smith wrote:

> I need to add a second drive to two of my boxes for back up purposes only.  I was looking on NewEgg and found prices have dropped more than I would have ever imagined.  

I know the original question has now been solved, but what I didn't see
mentioned really is a home-made SAN or a prebuilt SAN as your backup
method.  Currently, I've got 120G (laptop) + 60G (kerry's laptop) + 200G
(desktop) to backup, and I've got an external 400G disk I rsync to
weekly.  But with 1TB drives being so cheap (at work we just threw 1
into each of our 3 clustered boxes for local, not-backedup /scratch)
you've gotta start wondering, when does it start making more sense to go
with either a commercial solution or something small, fast enough and
that can RAID5 a few drives.  Anyone got first-hand experiance here, at
home, work or both?

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Tom Rini