[NCSA-discuss] RAID recommendations?

[John Franklin]

On Dec 17, 2010, at 4:05 PM, Simon Karpen wrote:

> It all depends on your budget, but what about going for an external JBOD like
> 
> http://www.siliconmechanics.com/c1153/storform-jbods.php
> 
> (much better bang for the buck / rack space / etc than the Dell MD series or similar)
> 
> and stick a controller in the server itself? (if you don't already have a controller with the appropriate ports, that is)


If we're looking at JBODs, has anyone tried the iSCSI enabled Drobos?  Does anyone know how well they perform?

jf