From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Sep 11 11:42:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from rapidnet.com (rapidnet.com [205.164.216.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8BA037B408 for ; Tue, 11 Sep 2001 11:42:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (barney@localhost) by rapidnet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA69696; Tue, 11 Sep 2001 12:41:53 -0600 (MDT) Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 12:41:53 -0600 (MDT) From: Troy Barnhart To: Massimo Lusetti Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NAS solution In-Reply-To: <999077449.3b8cb649bd365@webapps.datacode.it> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I am currently developing a SAN/NAS project at work. I just had a working session yesterday w/ an IBM storage specialist and engineer. HP has pulled their NAS-type stuff off the market. HP's backup's portion of SAN/Fibrechannel stuff is damn nice. Take a look at IBM's ESS "Shark" or FastStorage500 or NAS300g items... Actually, the IBM solution (based on AIX-RS600) is pretty damn good, but spendy. barney On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Massimo Lusetti wrote: > > I've to choose a network attached solutions to serve a file base about 200 GB > (growing) via NSF and CIFS/SMB to about 15 WKS. > > Does anyone have any experience ? > In particular you believe is the case to look at solutions form vendors like > IBM or HP or just build a solid server with a lot of disks in (which i think > solution from vendors are like) ?! > > Thanks. > > Regards > -- > Massimo Lusetti > Network Department Manager To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message