Storage woes... again

Mike McGrath mmcgrath at redhat.com
Fri Oct 12 14:12:23 UTC 2007


Mark Wormgoor wrote:
> Mike,
>
>> Right now we're storing our stuff on some pretty quick netapps, which 
>> stinks considering that koji is only accessing a small percentage of 
>> that storage at any point in time and even then... its over NFS.  I'd 
>> like to propose we move to cheaper storage that is dedicated to just 
>> koji.  There are a number of options to do this, including different 
>> models of netapps.  I'm putting a spreadsheet together that takes in 
>> to consideration price, how much we get and figures out how much it 
>> costs / G / month over a 4 year period.  If you guys know of anything 
>> to add to the list just let me know.
>
> I'm a big Netapp fan. It's expensive, but really blazing fast and has 
> a lot of very nice features. But, it's not for cheap mass storage.
>
> Have you looked at Coraid Etherdrive? They also have a NAS Gateway to 
> go with it.

I haven't but I'll add it to the list, if you have a specific 
interesting link send it my way.

    -Mike




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