[SGVLUG] Storage - NAS / SAN, ZFS - what's your experience with them?

Dan Buthusiem dan.buthusiem at gmail.com
Tue May 8 19:54:31 PDT 2012


I was wondering something similar. Fry's has AMD E350 CPU/mobo with 4/6
sata for $80-$100. Figured at that price *I'd* build myself a nice low
power storage cluster. I dread having everything in 1 machine, so I figure
having 3 machines "raided" over my network would be good / fun.

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On May 8, 2012 7:45 PM, "matti" <mathew_2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:

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> Hi,
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> So I am looking at an affordable storage solution for a small business
> environment.
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> Curious what others have experienced in this arena
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> Digging about wondering what would be the best solution on
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> a budget and noticed a few interesting references:
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> freeNAS vs Open Solaris ZFS: ( this is from 2010.. so it maybe a bit
> dated.. freeNAS is based on FreeBSD and the newer versions should
> do better with ZFS,,also note they use iSCSI )
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> http://www.zfsbuild.com/2010/09/10/freenas-vs-opensolaris-zfs-benchmarks/
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> Hmm... Nexenta OS wonder how good that is...
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> A few more references:
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> http://www.stringliterals.com/?p=58
> http://www.stringliterals.com/?p=77
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> http://www.zfsbuild.com/
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> Open Storage Summit has a number of videos online
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> http://www.youtube.com/user/OpenStorageSummit/videos
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> thanks
> matti
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