Building a Large SAN
John Wendel
john.wendel at metnet.navy.mil
Tue Dec 13 17:52:58 UTC 2005
Brian D. McGrew wrote:
> Good morning all:
>
> So we've got this recording studio and we've got somewhere around 200
> external hard drives ranging in size between 100GB and 300GB. When an
> artist comes in, we plug their drive into the host, do the recording,
> save it, unplug it and it's on to the next one. We've never had a drive
> fail until yesterday and fortunately, I was able to quickly recover it
> but it got me to thinking...
>
> What are the prospects of building a SAN to mirror data on to? Since
> everything else in the studio is rack mount, rack space isn't an issue
> but I have two requirements that need to be addressed:
>
> 1) Has to run Linux and be highly and quickly scalable so that I can
> just plug in a drive, add it to an array and go. I figure right now,
> we're close to about 20B and add another 1TB a month.
>
> 2) My main requirement is that I be able to seamlessly and on-the-fly
> clone the drives that we attach to the host. The host is running Mac OS
> 10.3 so Samba or rsync might work.
>
> Look for input,
>
> -brian
>
> Brian D. McGrew { brian at visionpro.com || brian at doubledimension.com }
> --
>
>>Those of you who think you know it all,
>
> really annoy those of us who do!
>
>
You might be interestd in <http://www.coraid.com>
Regards,
John
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