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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > Enterprise Storage Megathread: Why is my NAS a SAN?
 
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Absorbs Quickly
Jan 6, 2005

And then the ArchAngel descended from heaven.

dexter posted:

My only problem with the MD3000 (SAS) we use is that the controller card isn't compatible with FreeBSD. It only works with RHEL/Centos and Windows 2003/2008.

Thanks for that. Dell was trying to sell us those explicitly *for* use with freeBSD.

I wish I could stab whoever in procurement decided we had to use dell for all of our freeBSD boxes.

H110Hawk posted:

I come seeking a hardware recommendation. It's not quite enterprise, but it's not quite home use, either. We need a bulk storage solution on the cheap. Performance is not a real concern of ours, it just needs to work.

Our requirements:

Hardware raid, dual parity preferred (RAID6), BBU
Cheap!
Runs or attachable to Debian Etch, 2.6 kernel.
Power-dense per gb.
Cheap!
The sales team at IX has had some really nice things to say about their new colossus array, and wile I haven't found any reviews the sales guys there are usually pretty honest about what sucks and what doesn't. It's a FC-attached RAID device, 48TB (raw) in 4U. It's more than the supermicro solution, but it does RAID on the device and has a bunch of multipathing and redundant controller fancyness (as well as support :v: ).

http://www.ixsystems.com/products/colossus.html

Absorbs Quickly fucked around with this message at 17:31 on Sep 18, 2008

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