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Re: SATA RAID enclosures?



 On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 14:03 -0400, Scott Ehrlich wrote: 
> I'm looking to price SATA RAID enclosures to support user desktop backups, 
> starting small (1 or 2 TB max) to start.   I've got about 5 users whose 
> /home directories are being backed up via samba mounts (local cron job on 
> their systems tar their end, and I simply copy the tgz and resulting log 
> files to my end, tarring as incremental). 
> 
> I'd aim for RAID 5 with four disks to start.  More systems could be added 
> as time goes on. 
> 
> What vendors and technologies (including iscsi vs straight scsi) do people 
> recommend? 


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