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  1. Re:SSDs by PlusFiveTroll · · Score: 1 · on Ask Slashdot: Do You Test Your New Hard Drives?

    > SSDs are just for laptops or so, not for real data storage requirements

    Yep, just for laptops

    http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/solid-state-drives/solid-state-drives-910-series.html

    http://www.equallogic.com/products/default.aspx?id=10857

    SSD isn't great for bulk data storage, but where you need high IOPS a few SSDs in arrays replace a truckload of drives.

  2. Re:Amazing! by Avatar8 · · Score: 1 · on Everything You Know About Disks Is Wrong
    As others have stated, it definitely sounds like you may have other factors causing your HD failure.


    If you do lots of read/writes, in theory you should see better performance from RAID 5; more spindles = more reads (as long as the data is distributed across multiple disks).

    I'd suggest something like http://www.intel.com/design/servers/storage/ss4000 -E/index.htm or http://www.enhance-tech.com/products/desktop_array /desktoparray_Index.htm to solve several of your issues depending on how you implement it.

    If you set it up as it's own storage/backup server, then you're looking at network speed as your bottleneck. If you install it as a cage within your system (not sure if these models can), you're at least providing RAID 1, 5 or 10 redundancy, but you'll still have other factors (P/S, environment) impacting the drives.

    Personally, if I had the money I'd have an iSCSI array like http://www.equallogic.com/products/view.aspx?id=46
    Anyone want to float me $20k. :-)

  3. Re:2006 is the year of virtualization... by pasikarkkainen · · Score: 1 · on Novell's Virtualization Partnership

    Yes, definitely year 2006 is the big year for virtualization. I also think year 2006 will be big year for iSCSI (IP) SANs. Vendors like Equallogic (http://www.equallogic.com/ have made IP SANs enterprise ready.. and there are also many products available for the lower end.

  4. iSCSI storage / san by pasikarkkainen · · Score: 3, Informative · on Building a Massive Single Volume Storage Solution?

    There seems to be lots of SATA-RAID based iSCSI SAN devices available nowadays.. Some links to products I have seen:

    http://www.equallogic.com./ They make nice SATA-raid based iSCSI SAN devices with all the features you could expect (volumes, snapshots, array/volume-expansion, hotswap, redundant controllers, redundant fans, etc).

    http://www.equallogic.com/pages/products_PS100E.ht m
    14 250G sata disks, 3U, 3.5 TB of raw storage.

    http://www.equallogic.com/pages/products_PS300E.ht m
    14 500G sata disks, 3U, 7 TB of raw storage.

    http://www.equallogic.com/pages/products_PS2400E.h tm
    56+ TB

    Looks good. I have not yet used them myself :)

    Another iSCSI SATA SAN possibility:
    http://www.mpccorp.com/smallbiz/store/servers/prod uct_detail/dataframe_420.html
    16 sata disks, review:
    http://www.infoworld.com/MPC_DataFrame_420/product _53700.html?view=1&curNodeId=0

    This company also has SATA iSCSI SAN devices:
    http://www.dynamicnetworkfactory.com/products.asp/ section/Product~Categories/category/iSCSI/options/ IPBank/drivetype/L~Series/formfactor/Integrated/in face/SATA~-~Serial~ATA

    iSCSI SAN comparison:
    http://www.networkcomputing.com/story/singlePageFo rmat.jhtml?articleID=170702726

    There are also software iSCSI target solutions for use with your own/custom hardware.
    http://iscsitarget.sourceforge.net/ for building linux-based iSCSI target/SAN.

    If you are familiar with iSCSI targets / iSCSI SAN devices please post your comments!

  5. iSCSI storage / san by pasikarkkainen · · Score: 3, Informative · on Building a Massive Single Volume Storage Solution?

    There seems to be lots of SATA-RAID based iSCSI SAN devices available nowadays.. Some links to products I have seen:

    http://www.equallogic.com./ They make nice SATA-raid based iSCSI SAN devices with all the features you could expect (volumes, snapshots, array/volume-expansion, hotswap, redundant controllers, redundant fans, etc).

    http://www.equallogic.com/pages/products_PS100E.ht m
    14 250G sata disks, 3U, 3.5 TB of raw storage.

    http://www.equallogic.com/pages/products_PS300E.ht m
    14 500G sata disks, 3U, 7 TB of raw storage.

    http://www.equallogic.com/pages/products_PS2400E.h tm
    56+ TB

    Looks good. I have not yet used them myself :)

    Another iSCSI SATA SAN possibility:
    http://www.mpccorp.com/smallbiz/store/servers/prod uct_detail/dataframe_420.html
    16 sata disks, review:
    http://www.infoworld.com/MPC_DataFrame_420/product _53700.html?view=1&curNodeId=0

    This company also has SATA iSCSI SAN devices:
    http://www.dynamicnetworkfactory.com/products.asp/ section/Product~Categories/category/iSCSI/options/ IPBank/drivetype/L~Series/formfactor/Integrated/in face/SATA~-~Serial~ATA

    iSCSI SAN comparison:
    http://www.networkcomputing.com/story/singlePageFo rmat.jhtml?articleID=170702726

    There are also software iSCSI target solutions for use with your own/custom hardware.
    http://iscsitarget.sourceforge.net/ for building linux-based iSCSI target/SAN.

    If you are familiar with iSCSI targets / iSCSI SAN devices please post your comments!

  6. iSCSI storage / san by pasikarkkainen · · Score: 3, Informative · on Building a Massive Single Volume Storage Solution?

    There seems to be lots of SATA-RAID based iSCSI SAN devices available nowadays.. Some links to products I have seen:

    http://www.equallogic.com./ They make nice SATA-raid based iSCSI SAN devices with all the features you could expect (volumes, snapshots, array/volume-expansion, hotswap, redundant controllers, redundant fans, etc).

    http://www.equallogic.com/pages/products_PS100E.ht m
    14 250G sata disks, 3U, 3.5 TB of raw storage.

    http://www.equallogic.com/pages/products_PS300E.ht m
    14 500G sata disks, 3U, 7 TB of raw storage.

    http://www.equallogic.com/pages/products_PS2400E.h tm
    56+ TB

    Looks good. I have not yet used them myself :)

    Another iSCSI SATA SAN possibility:
    http://www.mpccorp.com/smallbiz/store/servers/prod uct_detail/dataframe_420.html
    16 sata disks, review:
    http://www.infoworld.com/MPC_DataFrame_420/product _53700.html?view=1&curNodeId=0

    This company also has SATA iSCSI SAN devices:
    http://www.dynamicnetworkfactory.com/products.asp/ section/Product~Categories/category/iSCSI/options/ IPBank/drivetype/L~Series/formfactor/Integrated/in face/SATA~-~Serial~ATA

    iSCSI SAN comparison:
    http://www.networkcomputing.com/story/singlePageFo rmat.jhtml?articleID=170702726

    There are also software iSCSI target solutions for use with your own/custom hardware.
    http://iscsitarget.sourceforge.net/ for building linux-based iSCSI target/SAN.

    If you are familiar with iSCSI targets / iSCSI SAN devices please post your comments!

  7. iSCSI storage / san by pasikarkkainen · · Score: 3, Informative · on Building a Massive Single Volume Storage Solution?

    There seems to be lots of SATA-RAID based iSCSI SAN devices available nowadays.. Some links to products I have seen:

    http://www.equallogic.com./ They make nice SATA-raid based iSCSI SAN devices with all the features you could expect (volumes, snapshots, array/volume-expansion, hotswap, redundant controllers, redundant fans, etc).

    http://www.equallogic.com/pages/products_PS100E.ht m
    14 250G sata disks, 3U, 3.5 TB of raw storage.

    http://www.equallogic.com/pages/products_PS300E.ht m
    14 500G sata disks, 3U, 7 TB of raw storage.

    http://www.equallogic.com/pages/products_PS2400E.h tm
    56+ TB

    Looks good. I have not yet used them myself :)

    Another iSCSI SATA SAN possibility:
    http://www.mpccorp.com/smallbiz/store/servers/prod uct_detail/dataframe_420.html
    16 sata disks, review:
    http://www.infoworld.com/MPC_DataFrame_420/product _53700.html?view=1&curNodeId=0

    This company also has SATA iSCSI SAN devices:
    http://www.dynamicnetworkfactory.com/products.asp/ section/Product~Categories/category/iSCSI/options/ IPBank/drivetype/L~Series/formfactor/Integrated/in face/SATA~-~Serial~ATA

    iSCSI SAN comparison:
    http://www.networkcomputing.com/story/singlePageFo rmat.jhtml?articleID=170702726

    There are also software iSCSI target solutions for use with your own/custom hardware.
    http://iscsitarget.sourceforge.net/ for building linux-based iSCSI target/SAN.

    If you are familiar with iSCSI targets / iSCSI SAN devices please post your comments!