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[Discuss] NAS: lots of bays vs. lots of boxes
- Subject: [Discuss] NAS: lots of bays vs. lots of boxes
- From: ozbek at gmx.com (F. O. Ozbek)
- Date: Sun, 05 Jul 2015 09:52:09 -0400
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On 07/05/2015 09:04 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) wrote: >> 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, You can connect to MooseFS via samba. There is a production installation with hundreds of windows boxes connecting to MooseFS via smb. or have an android or ios app. No android or IOS app, yet. -- F. Ozbek
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