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Date:      Fri, 18 Aug 2000 17:18:38 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Mike Wade <mwade@cdc.net>
To:        Jonathan Laventhol <jonathan.laventhol@imagination.co.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Cheap 1000Gbyte machine
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008181710000.84412-100000@net-ninja.com>
In-Reply-To: <399D6F59.B8E44A53@imagination.com>

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On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Jonathan Laventhol wrote:

> Hello Folks --
> 
> Anybody built a file server with approx 1000 Gbyte or more?
> Or even 200 Gbyte?
> 
> I'm looking for a cheap simple way of doing this.  Lots of
> IDE drives?  (How many can you have?)  Or SCSI?  (Again,
> how many can you have?).
> 
> It's for lots of 1 Mbyte files: no huge files.
> 
> Thanks for any tips.

You might want to check out the Arena Industrial II Rackmount RAID system
from "www.raidweb.com".  It has 8 x UDMA controllers that connect to the
host via Ultra2 SCSI (platform independant).  Buy two (or more) of those
and 16 x (60/80 gb Maxtor UMDA Drives or 75 gb IBM UMDA Drives).

2  x Arena Industrial II Rackmount RAID  $3,975
16 x Maxtor UDMA 60 gb Hard Drives       $3,680

Total Cost                               $7,655

That comes out to about $7.98 / gb...

---
Mike Wade (mwade@cdc.net)
Chief Technical Officer
CDC Internet, Inc.



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