Posts made by DustinB3403

The CPU and memory were bare minimums to have from xbyte so... why not.

As for the drives they are physical file shares at the moment... so yeah....

All in, with 16GB of Memory and Dual Xeon at 1.8 GHz with 4 of the drives the price for this unit would be $4190.96

We'd then have to move all of our data over to it, remap our shares, and have our backup appliance backup a single server...

Doesn't seem horrible. But how does one move 4TB of data (from different servers) all to one server?

4 bay or 8 bay chassis?

I'm assuming you went with five 2TB drives from Amazon in RAID 5 would would give me 8TB usable.

Correct?

Scott what chassis and drives were you looking at, I can't find anything under $4000 grand all in.

Scott on dells site I don't even see an option for a 1 or 2TB SSD.

What were you looking at when pricing?

How much do you want to bet that the SAN that is being proposed will be on Spinning Rust? I don't have any details yet, but will fill you in when I get them (likely when everything has already been bought . . . )

Ah well that makes a lot more sense.

Why wouldn't you use RAID10 with SSD's? I must've missed the article.

Which the MSP is again recommending RAID5. . . . ... . .

And if we wanted a true 6TB of usable space in RAID10, we'd need 12 drives.

I know it's a consumer grade unit, but the unit has 1 internal bay for "Backup" making it 7 (even though that would be stupid as all gitup).

Which is still not worth it to dig any further for a 6TB SSD NAS.

But just so it's out there: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817994147

and 6 of these http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147362

I didn't go any further, it wasn't worth the time.

Ha

I just priced a unit for about the same cost for just the chassis and the drives.

Lets all go out and build a 6TB SSD NAS just for price comparison.

That's my point, we have 3 servers as file servers. And maybe 100 employees, the entire idea is just baffling.

SAM, again this is the same MSP making this recommendation as in past conversations. . .

We have a few locations some over seas, but they all come back to the main office via our VPN for network shares etc.

We have a few separate network shares hosted on different servers at the moment.

My boss is being sold on a SAN for our network of 4TB of data, expected to grow to 6TB within 4 years. Not that a SAN isn't needed but it seems like a really big chuck of any money we have for our virtualization project.

When we could buy two 32TB NAS devices (or build them) for $1500 and have the replicate between each other...