1.5TB SAN for $35K -- this is how we do it...

[Adam L. Beberg]

On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Eugene Leitl wrote:

> Hmm, I think I'd rather sink the money into a PVFS/EIDE/Beowulf approach.
> Multiple IDE adapters/box, RAID at box level (soft or hard, depending on
> how much pain you can stand), PVFS at cluster level.

Oh, I wasn't aware Oracle ran on that ;)
[per Jim's "high-throughput database" premise, with my added "non-guru
usable" assumption]

Yes, when you just want space, IDE+RAID+AMD+Linux is how I'd do it too.
[see monthly "1TB for $5k" slashdot postings]

- Adam L. "Duncan" Beberg
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