Need more storage!
Well, it's finally happened - I'm down to 1 terabyte on my 4.8 terabyte appliance. So naturally, when you are down to 20% free disk space, it's time to look at increasing storage.
I was considering the Promise VTrak 15200 that I set up over Christmas - but it turns out Promise has a new iSCSI device, the Promise M500i.
The M500i is twice as fast as the V15200 thanks to using internal PCI/X, a new Intel IO processor, and a new RAID implementation.
As an added bonus, Hitachi released their Deskstar 7K500 500GB 3.5" SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive a few months ago, and you can now get them from newegg.com for $328!
Like the VTrak15200, the M500i takes 15 drives, and so if I go with RAID 50 with a hot spare like before, I will get 6.0 terabytes of storage out of the combo. Of course, if I wait 3 minutes, someone will release a terabyte drive and then boy will I feel foolish. But 6 terabytes should last me through to Christmas at least.
I was considering the Promise VTrak 15200 that I set up over Christmas - but it turns out Promise has a new iSCSI device, the Promise M500i.
The M500i is twice as fast as the V15200 thanks to using internal PCI/X, a new Intel IO processor, and a new RAID implementation.
As an added bonus, Hitachi released their Deskstar 7K500 500GB 3.5" SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive a few months ago, and you can now get them from newegg.com for $328!
Like the VTrak15200, the M500i takes 15 drives, and so if I go with RAID 50 with a hot spare like before, I will get 6.0 terabytes of storage out of the combo. Of course, if I wait 3 minutes, someone will release a terabyte drive and then boy will I feel foolish. But 6 terabytes should last me through to Christmas at least.