[Discuss] NAS: lots of bays vs. lots of boxes

[blu at nedharvey.com (Edward Ned Harvey (blu))]

> From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey.com at blu.org] On
> Behalf Of Tom Metro
>  
> I'm more interested in clever ways of using multiple, cheap, commodity
> NAS boxes, Google-style. For example, for the same cost as that $600+
> (diskless) DIY NAS I linked to, I can get 4 of the QNAP 2-bay boxes and
> maybe combine them with something like MooseFS. You get redundancy
> where
> some number of the boxes can go down, and it still keeps working, and
> you can expand capacity by adding more boxes (if drive density increases
> don't keep pace).

I think the leaders in this space are glusterfs, and ceph. But I'm sure each one has their own individual strengths and weaknesses. Among them is compatibility - I don't think you're going to get anything like this to work with windows or mac clients, or have an android or ios app.