Paul Galjan wrote:
I agree w/Doug here. A good IP network and NFS sounds like it would
do the trick. Netapp has a very good solution in the R150 if you want
to integrate the NFS server function, and their NFS server is
extremely solid... Otherwise, NexSAN and LSI have very good IDE disk
solutions, but you have to worry about load balancing across NFS
servers yourself. Depending on how comfortable you are with large
filesystems on Linux, that be preferable.

Make sure you spec out a backup system with this system (if you need
one).

Agreed, the performance requirements don't merit the expense of a SAN, and
the need for a shread file system makes NAS much more suitable for the task.


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Nik Simpson