[nflug] NAS storage (Cost)

[JJ Neff]

> 
> i don't mean to sound rude but for $2000 or $3000 your not going to get
> very much. how reliable does this need to be? i mean you could throw a
> bunch of 250gb sata drives into a linux machine for that but it's not
> going to scale well, any load is going to crush it, and what about
> managing the filesystems? granted we invested about $100k in our storage
> infrastructure which was a steal but it's ultra reliable, scales like no
> tomorrow, and has sustained the company for 3+ years. talk to your
> management and explain to them that it's an investment in the furture.
> 
> drop me a line off list if you're interested, i'll give you a full
> breakdown on the setup, prices, what venders to call, etc.
> 


We also have a HUGE SAN now at our corporate Data Center (multiplt T of Data)
and it is all SAN HP equipment with racks of drives - again your GIS folks said
they don't "like" NAS - they are only going to "like" something in the multiple
100K range!

I was a big proponent of slapping NAS boxes on the network but now that we've
had SAN for a few years I am a big fan of it - we have fiber connected SANS in
seperate buildings with fail over and redundandcy - the works.  BUT boy oh boy
2-3 K would barely buy a few drives and some hba's to stick in the servers!



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