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Subject: Re: high throughput storage server?
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 12:49:51 +0700
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I highly recommend taking a look at Openfiler, pretty simple to set up
and very flexible, really just a stabilized/tested "appliance" built
on Linux/FOSS tools. Then your choices come down to what
top-of-the-line hardware you'd like to buy. . .

With the money you'd save from not going COTS, you could build two of
them and create high-availability mirrored servers with DRBD/heartbeat
for extra redundancy/fault-tolerance. And pre-pay for a full lifetime
of support, if that gives you and the company an extra level of
comfort. And still have a nice chunk of budget left over for UPSs,
backup hardware, network capacity expansion etc.