Re:135 Terabytes for $12,000
by serverascode on Thursday October 13, 2011 @11:51AM
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This is a great thread here.
I think there are a lot of people, even institutions like where I work, that are looking hard at storage that isn't block based storage from some huge vendor or storage that ends up being $5000+/TB (looking at you Isilon). Ok, maybe it's just me all alone here at my work place. :)
Even running RAID6 or RAID10 over 3TB SAS drives on some largish enclosures (ie. 36,45,60 drives per 4U) will be very cost effective even just using md, lvm, and xfs.
Or even better, use ZFS if possible. Not a huge fan of Solaris, but there is OpenIndiana, or FreeBSD has ZFS.
And object storage such as openstack swift is really gaining momentum and will likely replace most storage systems for large amounts of data over the next couple/5 years. There are single orgs that have put out 5.5 petabytes of openstack swift storage! Right now!
I think there are a lot of people, even institutions like where I work, that are looking hard at storage that isn't block based storage from some huge vendor or storage that ends up being $5000+/TB (looking at you Isilon). Ok, maybe it's just me all alone here at my work place. :)
Even running RAID6 or RAID10 over 3TB SAS drives on some largish enclosures (ie. 36,45,60 drives per 4U) will be very cost effective even just using md, lvm, and xfs.
Or even better, use ZFS if possible. Not a huge fan of Solaris, but there is OpenIndiana, or FreeBSD has ZFS.
And object storage such as openstack swift is really gaining momentum and will likely replace most storage systems for large amounts of data over the next couple/5 years. There are single orgs that have put out 5.5 petabytes of openstack swift storage! Right now!