>
> I went to Dell and spec'ed out a brand new external RAID enclosure
> that connects via some PCI-e RAID controller card, with 10 15k RPM SAS
> drives in (the fastest drives available for the array) providing 2TB
> of reasonably redundant (RAID 10 + a couple of hotswaps sitting on
> standby) storage. I'm also hoping for a little bit of a boost during
> read operations, theoretically, from the RAID config.
>
> Oh, and we had to buy a brand new server so we could connect the
> enclosure to something. I just picked the cheapest rack-mount Dell had
> that would connect to that enclosure, and tweaked the config slightly.
>
> Because we caught them at the end of their sales quota time period,
> and because we bought two identical setups, we were able to get them
> for about $3,500 a piece.
>
May I ask exactly what storage array you bought? Was it a MD1000?
A new MD1000 array with 10 15k 400GB SAS disks costs $10,000.
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Mark Krenz
Bloomington Linux Users Group
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