I'm in the market for a iSCSI SAN / NAS solution. I have a limited budget of about $8000. I'm looking at either building it with a 24 drive sata chassis(not full but available for future growth) and a Asus quad core opteron board / 3ware controller, etc OR purchasing HPs starter AiO1200R(and seeing if I can not order drives and put in my own 1 TB sata disks). This maxes as 12 SATA drives.<br>
<br>The HP solution is simple to admin, windows 2003 based(for good or bad), etc.<br><br>Does anyone know of a easy to admin linux based system? I want to run more things on it than just a san/nas..I'm thinking of running Bacula on it. I've looked at OpenFiler and FreeNAS. Neither one run a flavor of linux I'm confortable with(RHEL, CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu are my linux favs). Anyone have any other suggestions? I'm not familar with rpath linux or if I can run bacula on it. My issue is I'm not a storage specialist and neither is the rest of my team so something easy to admin would help...preferable OSS.<br>
<br>Thanks!<br>-Jim<br><br><br>