<div dir="rtl"><div dir="ltr">Hi people,</div><div dir="ltr">I'm planning to add some big storage solution to my <a href="http://hetz.biz">VPS business</a>. I did some checking and calculated the costs, and figured out that if I want to have a decent 12TB solution NAS box, it would be best if I would roll my own. (12 TB before all the RAID stuff, after that it would lot less). All other solutions are very expensive (example: IBM EXP 3000 costs here 6K nis without a single hard disk). </div>
<div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">I'm planning to use hardware based RAID card, minimal Linux distribution and have some offers like iSCSI, NFS, CIFS - the usual suspects.<br clear="all"><br></div><div dir="ltr">
My question is: since I'll use hardware RAID card, which processor and how much RAM should I put in such a machine? Xeon is overkill IIRC.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">What do you suggest?</div><div dir="ltr">
<br></div><div dir="ltr">Thanks and Shana Tova</div><div dir="ltr">Hetz</div><div dir="ltr"><br>-- <br>my blog (hebrew): <a href="http://benhamo.org">http://benhamo.org</a><br>Skype: heunique<br>MSN: <a href="mailto:hetz-blog@benhamo.org">hetz-blog@benhamo.org</a><br>
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