Re: Cheap NAS boxes

Fair point.

This will somewhat replace a number of ad-hoc nfs mounts hosted on various dell boxes + tape backups (will still go to tape but second) so by resilient I mean at least as resilient as tape backup and dell servers :).

On 7/26/06, Kevin Closson <kevinc_at_polyserve.com> wrote:
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> Well, you want resilient, NAS and low cost in one package. Very
> difficult to do. Resilient with filers means clustered filers, or
> multi-headed
> NAS like HP EFS-CG, neither of which is really all that cheap. Whatever
> is serving up the two protocols (NFS and CIFS) is going to cost money.
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> oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] *On Behalf Of *Niall Litchfield
> *Sent:* Wednesday, July 26, 2006 8:32 AM
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> *Subject:* Cheap NAS boxes
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> I'm after recommendations (preferably for products I can actually buy
> here in the UK) for cheap resilient high capacity shared storage. The
> storage needs to
>
> a) be accessible from both windows and linux boxes
> b) be cheap and reliable
> c) store backups including backups of RAC databases so the same storage
> will need in principle to be read/writable from multiple nodes.
> d) store shared media (think Oracle DVD media etc)
>
> I don't care overly about performance, I will likely want between 2-10TB
> of storage.
>
> You'll note that I haven't specified a technology - though I admit to
> thinking NAS. any suggestions?
>
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