<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">For the size that you are looking at,
I think you should be looking at SAN or NAS solutions instead of direct
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I really like Network Appliance (www.netapp.com)
they just run and run. Average uptimes on these devices are in the
order of 400-500 days. Well worth all the money for a NetApp.</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">They support multiprotocols (CIFS, NFS,
HTTP, iSCSI, FiberChannel)</font>
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<br><font size=1 face="sans-serif">Sent by: cialug-bounces@cialug.org</font>
<p><font size=1 face="sans-serif">08/30/2005 09:48 PM</font>
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<br><font size=2><tt>anyone know some good raid controllers that work excellent
in linux? i'm <br>
thinking serial ata before ide or eide. no scsi plz<br>
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i've never used raid before. i'm looking to make a fileserver with
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~100-150tb of storage. also like to have some expandibility in the future.<br>
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NAS anyone?<br>
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