RE: Cheap NAS boxes

From: Kevin Closson <kevinc_at_polyserve.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 09:44:01 -0700
Message-ID: <5D2570CAFC98974F9B6A759D1C74BAD0E5ABBE@ex2.ms.polyserve.com>

Well, you want resilient, NAS and low cost in one package. Very difficult to do. Resilient with filers means clustered filers, or multi-headed
NAS like HP EFS-CG, neither of which is really all that cheap. Whatever is serving up the two protocols (NFS and CIFS) is going to cost money.        

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	Subject: Cheap NAS boxes
	
	
	I'm after recommendations (preferably for products I can

actually buy here in the UK) for cheap resilient high capacity shared storage. The storage needs to          

1. be accessible from both windows and linux boxes
2. be cheap and reliable
3. store backups including backups of RAC databases so the same storage will need in principle to be read/writable from multiple nodes.
4. store shared media (think Oracle DVD media etc)

        I don't care overly about performance, I will likely want between 2-10TB of storage.          

        You'll note that I haven't specified a technology - though I admit to thinking NAS. any suggestions?         

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	Niall Litchfield
	Oracle DBA
	http://www.orawin.info 

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