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On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 10:21:30AM -0600, Jack-rp9/bkPP+cDYtjvyW6yDsg at public.gmane.org wrote: > When working for a bank, we built our own 'NAS Server' by putting a hardware > RAID card and as many and the biggest drives we could afford. The servers > didn't need a LOT of CPU but memory always helped. We did use 1G NICs. > And yes, we still backed it up to a tape backup system. These were used > for low performance NAS needs (storing check images at 200bpi and PDFs > of statements). > > It worked and was cheap. The highest $$ single component was the Adaptec > RAID card, but it works. Also use software to monitor your RAID and its > drives, because things do fail. And buy a spare drive whether you keep it in > or not. I am now totally enamored of the HP P800 controller. It is unfortunately expensive, but it is totally awesome in a hardware sense. Good Linux drivers in-kernel, and an external monitoring program called cpqarrayd available on Sourceforge. -dsr- -- http://tao.merseine.nu/~dsr/eula.html is hereby incorporated by reference. You can't defend freedom by getting rid of it.