[NCSA-discuss] RAID recommendations?

[Jeffrey Johnson]

Dell PowerVault MD
Series<http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/powervault-md3000/pd?refid=pvaul_md3000&ST=dell%20md%203000&dgc=ST&cid=57663&lid=1474427&acd=58857,8,0,99586857,771765158,1292619152,,25688757,5763105657>or
entry level Dell
CLARiiON <http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/dell-emc-systems> are good.
Depends on your budget. If you have some budget you need to spend, I would
go with the CLARiiON solution. Fast and cheap, go with the MD series. They
have some other products that I am not as familiar with.

Thank you.


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On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Dan Singer <des at cs.duke.edu> wrote:

> Hello.  Wondering if anyone has any opinions on a RAID to buy -- or
> avoid.  We're thinking about getting a RAID in the 8-16 TB range for
> backup staging: backup to disk, copy to tape, leave the disk copy
> around for a while.  No need for snapshots or other fancy features,
> just capacity, speed, reliability, and ease of management are primary
> considerations; direct attached to a *nix server.
>
> Just satisfied with your RAID?  Love it?  Hate it?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Dan
>
> --
> Daniel E. Singer, System Administrator
> Dept. of Computer Science, Duke University
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