[Tfug] NAS suggestions

[Harry McGregor]

Hi,

Disk on wire type stuff, you would want to look at either ATAoE or 
iSCSI, which are both block level.

I suspect you probably want file system on wire, which would be NFS or CIFS.

If your willing to throw a lot of CPU and memory at the problem to 
reduce the amount of actual disk, I would look at SDFS (www.opendedupe.org).

Do you want the drives hot swap/front accessible?

I prefer ECC in server applications.   Also eSATA can work quite well 
with a SATA multiplier.

As far as drives go, I would look at 5400RPM HGST drives (now owned by 
WD) or 7200RPM WD Black.

Larger the better to start with, either 3x3TB or 3x4TB in Raid5 would be 
a good starting point.

-Harry

On 10/14/12 10:12 AM, Bexley Hall wrote:
> Hi Bender,
>
>> What is the storage capacity goal?
> I'm at 4T now and adding about 1T/month.  This will
> accelerate.   OTOH, I *could* go back and prune some
> of the more ancient data -- but, that takes time
> (I was hoping to just unconditionally "wipe" the drives
> when I was done to minimize the cost of maintaining this).
> And, it runs the risk that I will delete something that
> I later realize I shouldn't have (which would be incredibly
> hard to reconstruct).
>
> So, maybe 6-8T is a decent target -- before forcing
> myself to rethink what I've accumulated.  You know the
> feeling:  easier to find a place to stash more stuph than
> it is to sit down and dig through it to decide what you
> *really* want to hold onto!  :<
>
> --don
>
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