From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 12 16:46:00 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D22F16A4CE for ; Fri, 12 Nov 2004 16:46:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: from people.fsn.hu (people.fsn.hu [195.228.252.137]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 599C743D53 for ; Fri, 12 Nov 2004 16:45:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bra@fsn.hu) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by people.fsn.hu (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4D598452F; Fri, 12 Nov 2004 17:45:53 +0100 (CET) Received: from people.fsn.hu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (people.fsn.hu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 81247-03-4; Fri, 12 Nov 2004 17:45:48 +0100 (CET) Received: from [172.16.129.72] (japan.axelero.com [195.228.243.99]) by people.fsn.hu (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8FFA8444A; Fri, 12 Nov 2004 17:45:47 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4194E8BB.9050004@fsn.hu> Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 17:45:47 +0100 From: Attila Nagy User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041111 X-Accept-Language: hu, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sam Hopkins References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at fsn.hu cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AoE for FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 16:46:00 -0000 Sam Hopkins wrote: >>They look nice, but hideously expensive for anything I could use them in :( > Compared to other solutions, or just based on your wallet? We'd like to think > we've priced them competitively. Being this a FreeBSD list, I guess one could achieve similar function with a rack mountable PC case which can hold 15 SATA disks, an ATX motherboard with a dual GE interface and geom_gate. Of course this works only with FreeBSD, but Linux has its own implementation for this task (nbd). Don't know if it's cheaper or not... These boxes are cool indeed. :) -- Attila Nagy e-mail: Attila.Nagy@fsn.hu Free Services Network (FSN.HU) phone @work: +361 371 3536 ISOs: http://www.fsn.hu/?f=download cell.: +3630 306 6758