| Faeandar 2004-10-04, 5:46 pm |
| On Mon, 4 Oct 2004 15:30:30 +0300, "Priit Poldmaa" <priit@joosti.ee>
wrote:
>We have built a small SAN using 3ware SATA controller and Mayastor sotware.
>The next step is to find a cheapest but reliable true sharing SAN filesystem.
>All (3-5) clients/servers will run WinXP. They are video editing systems.
>
>All the prices are bit hard to find but so far I know that ImageSAN is about $1500 per server and
>Sanbolic Melio about $3500 per server. I have heard also that the Melio is more stable than ImageSAN.
>
>Could anybody suggest something else from the cheapest side.
>
>Thanks
>Priit
>
Never looked at price but I imagine from the Windows side you're a
fairly captive market. Alot of things exist for *nix but only a few
I've heard of for Windows. Polyserve may be an option since they do
support Windows, but no clue about pricing.
~F
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