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! 
> 
> 

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Regards,

John




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