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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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