<div dir="ltr">I was asking this same question in IRC a few days ago. The answer from several different people was SuperMicro passive drive bays. I think that's these products:<div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.supermicro.com/products/nfo/storage.cfm">http://www.supermicro.com/products/nfo/storage.cfm</a><br>
</div><div><br></div><div>I imagine you could set up individual drive master-slave sets with Hammer and effectively duplicate whole disks in case of drive failure, without going to actual hardware RAID. However! I have not actually tried this, so please be careful with your purchasing decisions based on the testimony of some idiot on a mailing list. (i.e. me)</div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 12:30 AM, Predrag Punosevac <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:punosevac72@gmail.com" target="_blank">punosevac72@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">My small LAB is looking to acquire two file servers in the very near<br>
future. I am not much of a storage guy so I am soliciting opinion from<br>
this community as the new file servers are likely to be running<br>
DragonFly BSD for obvious reason (Hammer).<br>
<br>
One file server should be about 20TB and used by a group of about 20-30<br>
users. Another should be about 10-12 TB with no more than 10 users.<br>
Following earlier advises I am thinking of setting up hardware RAID<br>
based on one of LSI devices. We are in data mining business so moving<br>
large amounts of data in particular via NFS is must for us.<br>
<br>
Are there any strong opinions? I was browsing little bit Newegg and I<br>
see bunch of inexpensive Synology and Buffalo network storage systems. I<br>
have mostly experience with Supermicro. Is there a significant<br>
difference in the quality between those manufacturers?<br>
<br>
Most Kind Regards,<br>
Predrag<br>
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