[NTLUG:Discuss] NAS devices

[Ralph]

Preston,
  That looks like a good set of hardware for a roll your own solution,
particularly if you say it is reliable hardware.  I can tell that I need
to add some parts to the chassis to make it a usable system, but I don't
know what.  If you have a pointer to a good reference manual for it,
could you forward that?  If not, I'll keep looking and I expect I will
find something.
  I am inclined to a solution like this in many ways, but I am also
looking at canned solutions like revinetix, which one of Chris's
pointers led me to.  They seemed to offer pretty much what we needed,
but at a higher initial cost, and one aspect that bothers me.  They
store all their backups in a proprietary format and you have to have one
of their machines to read the backups.  One of there pluses is that they
have a plugin for MS SQL server to make live backups.  I bet they
license that from someone and I just need to find that piece on its own
if I choose a roll your own.
Thank you,
Ralph

On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 11:30 -0500, Preston Hagar wrote:

> If you are looking for a 2 U server with 8 hot-swap bays, I would
> highly recommend this one:
> 
> http://www.serversdirect.com/product.asp?pf_id=CS4506
> ...
> NAS, but that might be overkill for your situation.  If 8 drives will
> work, I would highly recommend that server chassis with a 3ware card
> like this one:
> 
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816116054