We have a Sun 7410 cluster with a 24 TB J4400 for NAS storage. Out of the box, it supports NFS, CIFS and iSCSI, FTP, SFTP, HTTP, ZFS snapshots, etc. We're quite happy with the price, performance and support from Sun.<br>
<br>There are several options between a small stand-alone storage server (x4140) and a 7410 cluster with multiple attached arrays.<br><br><a href="http://www.oracle.com/us/products/servers-storage/storage/open-storage/index.html">http://www.oracle.com/us/products/servers-storage/storage/open-storage/index.html</a><br>
<br><br>Hope this helps.<br><br>Bruce Davis<br>East Arlington<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 19:23, Mark Lamourine <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mlamourine@comcast.net">mlamourine@comcast.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Correction. The 24TB Thumper is 29K$US list.<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
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30TB of mission critical storage via NFS. We're considering the
offerings from NetApp and EMC but they're much more than we need. For
example, we don't need features like mirroring or remote replication.
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<pre>Disclaimer: I work for Snoracle, and in the X86 hardware group (QA).
How about a thumper? (x4540). They can serve at least 24TB/chassis,
and I think with 1TB disks instead of the 500GB SATA drives I have in
the one I use at work you'd have 48TB raw storage. You would want to
run Solaris and use ZFS.
($25K) for 24TB unit, $50K for 48TB unit, 4xGBE ethernet and room for
additional quad NICs if needed.
I honestly can't tell you how that compares with the alternatives.
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