<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">No problems with any power supplies.
We are using dual power supplies...doesn't make sense to purchase
a reliable file server and not purchase dual PS or to not to put it on
UPS power.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Have only had 1 drive failure over the
past 8 years of using NetApp (across 4 filers and 2 different models).
Of course I don't have TBs of data. We are using their small
filers in the 250-300G range. We purchased these filers to store
the source code to our products (company jewels) so reliability and data
integrity are very important to us.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Based on past experience with hardware
based RAID cards (Dell PERC, AMI, etc, etc), I wouldn't trust the company
jewels to them...I have seen too many blow up and needed to be recovered
from backup. NetApp measures their availability of these filers from
the installed base at 99.99% (< 53min/year) and >99,000 years for
Mean Time to Data Loss (MTTDL). See http://www.netapp.com/tech_library/3065.html</font>
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For the size that you are looking at, I think you should be looking at
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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.
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They support multiprotocols (CIFS, NFS, HTTP, iSCSI, FiberChannel)</font><font size=3>
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anyone know some good raid controllers that work excellent in linux? i'm
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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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