[LinuxUsers] Buffalo TeraStation anyone?

[Chris Louden]

What about something more like Drobo with the Drobo Share module?
http://drobo.com/

-Chris



On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 3:32 AM, Peter Manis<peter.manis at gmail.com> wrote:
> I built my filer about a year ago so drives were a little more expensive,
> but I spent a little over $2000 overall to go with hardware RAID6 on 12
> drives.  If you get one of the areca PCIe x8 controllers you should be able
> to pull 800mb/s+ off the disks.  The areca 1231-ML ($650) says it does
> Performance: (Sustained Rate / All-in-Cache)
> RAID 0: Read - 885 / 1624 MB/s; Write - 847 / 1295 MB/s
> RAID 5: Read - 846 / 1624 MB/s; Write - 816 / 1295 MB/s
> RAID 6: Read - 811 / 1624 MB/s; Write - 776 / 1295 MB/s
> Based on real benchmarks I have seen these are pretty real numbers.  The
> card can have a cache of up to 4gb and modules aren't too expensive.  The
> other benefits to a card like the 1231 is that it has an integrated NIC and
> management software so you really can go barebones on the OS and be able to
> use the full functionality of the card.
> A friend of mine went with one of these non-hardware raid cards
> (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815121009) and is
> using OpenSolaris/ZFS with it and has been pretty happy.  I can't really
> give performance numbers because he used the PCI-X card in a standard PCI
> slot, but it was nowhere near the areca.
>
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 4:29 AM, Dante Lanznaster <dantecl at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 11:06 PM, David Kaiser<dkaiser at cdk.com> wrote:
>> > I'm wondering about a rackmount NAS box for my home office.
>> >
>> > http://www.buffalotech.com/products/network-storage/terastation/
>> >
>> > I have friends who have put Debian on these desktop units - but I'm
>> > looking at a rackmount.  I suppose the "firm"ware requirements are
>> > pretty similar?
>> >
>> > I guess something else I'm interested in finding from people...  is it
>> > worth buying something like this, or just building a 2U rackmount server
>> > with only samba, ftp and nfs on it?  these are about $1800 for a 2Tb
>> > unit - and can be easily configured for RAID over a web interface - is
>> > it worth the extra $$$ ?  Is there a good open source iScsi app/driver
>> > set?
>> >
>> > Any opinions?
>> >
>> > DK
>>
>>
>> I have only used their smaller 1Tb desktop units. Very reliable, but not
>> something I would put money on. Much rather build a box and use
>> either FreeNAS or OpenFiler.
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