On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Lamar Milligan wrote:
> I am researching specs for a small SAN, to provide storage for both RedHat
> and Windows systems. Spending tax money from a tight budget, I don't want
> to be wasteful, but don't want poor performance from the array. What
> equipment have you deployed in the past with success? FC or iSCSI? I have
> had vendors doing a tapdance about their products, but they are probably
> biased. :o

NAS is the most simple, and frankly, most san errors I've seen are
user-error. NAS will probably also perform better than ISCSI.

I've also used (1Gb) fibre-channel- you can get 1Gb fibre-channel for
almost free used, if your budget is really small. (used drives are,of
course, shaky- but used fibre switches/cards/cables are usually ok. Go
for HSSDC, not fiber-optic,  fiber-optic is much more sensitive to dust
(an issue with old equipment) and is much easier to pull out by
accident.)

(btw, I'm switching most of my servers from 1Gb fibre-channel to
local-storage as we speak; the advantages of central storage, for me, are
not greater than the simplicity and reduced rackspace of local storage)


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