From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 13 22:36:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from discordia.io.com (discordia.io.com [199.170.88.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D916637B505 for ; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 22:36:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fnord.io.com (mcerha@fnord.io.com [199.170.88.12]) by discordia.io.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA27732; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 00:36:16 -0500 Received: from localhost (mcerha@localhost) by fnord.io.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA03544; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 00:36:12 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: fnord.io.com: mcerha owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 00:36:12 -0500 (CDT) From: Matthew Cerha To: Philippe Le Berre Cc: Sriranga Veeraraghavan , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Has anyone used a Quantum SnapServer with FreeBSD? In-Reply-To: <5.0.0.25.0.20000913135428.018ad9b8@manston.placeware.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Seagate web site refers to xiotech inc that they've acquired. Although > Xiotech product seems to be good it's high-end SAN with fiber whereas I am > just looking for affordable Network based storage that can handle NT & > FreeBSD clients. Linksys is only selling RAID 1 products, Cobalt only RAID > 0 and Network Appliances products are just over-my-budget. As far as I know > the SnapServer 4000 is the only affordable RAID5 NAS (<3K$) available on > the market. The fact that SnapServer NFS stack doesn't support much > security shouldn't be in a big issue in my case. Have you looked at the OpenNAS servers from www.raidzone.com. They have RAID5 rigs based on UltraDMA IDE drives. Run Linux, so you get all the benefits of real NFS, Samba and NetAtalk. They've got a 100GB model for about $3500. Don't know if can be *made* to run *BSD or not :) BTW, RaidZone has an open source effort at www.opennas.org. Cheers, Matthew Cerha | "*If*, is the word in the middle of *life*." mcerha AT io.com | --Apocalypse Now To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message