It amazes me how everyone is wrapped up in the hardware debate when really the bigger concern is when is the file system going to blow up. People it's not a matter of hardware it a matter of getting the data you thought you put somewhere when your grandchild wants to see pictures of grandma. So pick what ever box you want but give yourself a fighting chance and get a filesystem with end to end integrity. I've seen too many file systems eat themselves and there is not a RAID configuration out there that is going to save you. Now on the subject of hardware RAID, you better have a good reason to use the low to medium power processors in the ones currently available. If you are not doing heavy duty movie production, save the recovery nightmare, there are places where the cache and the CPU offload make sense, but not at home. If you have a spare change talking tens of thousands here, look at what SUN did with the X4500, 48 screaming disks of raw heart stumping data flow, then again 6 disk controllers, 16 Gigabytes of memory, and 4 opteron cores directly hooked to said memory make for a nice day. By the way don't forget the 10 Gigabit Network pipe to get that raging data flowing.
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It amazes me how everyone is wrapped up in the hardware debate when really the bigger concern is when is the file system going to blow up. People it's not a matter of hardware it a matter of getting the data you thought you put somewhere when your grandchild wants to see pictures of grandma. So pick what ever box you want but give yourself a fighting chance and get a filesystem with end to end integrity. I've seen too many file systems eat themselves and there is not a RAID configuration out there that is going to save you. Now on the subject of hardware RAID, you better have a good reason to use the low to medium power processors in the ones currently available. If you are not doing heavy duty movie production, save the recovery nightmare, there are places where the cache and the CPU offload make sense, but not at home. If you have a spare change talking tens of thousands here, look at what SUN did with the X4500, 48 screaming disks of raw heart stumping data flow, then again 6 disk controllers, 16 Gigabytes of memory, and 4 opteron cores directly hooked to said memory make for a nice day. By the way don't forget the 10 Gigabit Network pipe to get that raging data flowing.
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