Hi,

I would like to make a two-nodes cluster from standard PCs and i'm
looking for a SAN solution to give these nodes a shared storage
subsystem.
I'm not a hardware guru so please forgive me 8).

It should be able to have 8 hot swap bays and the maximum capacity
should be 2TB. I'm interested in only solutions which supports SATA
drives.
Redundant power supply and redundant fans are also requirements either
the multiple raid controller capability.

Thanks in advance., Sandor

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Sandor Feher Wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to make a two-nodes cluster from standard PCs and i'm
> looking for a SAN solution to give these nodes a shared storage
> subsystem.
> I'm not a hardware guru so please forgive me 8).
>
> It should be able to have 8 hot swap bays and the maximum capacity
> should be 2TB. I'm interested in only solutions which supports SATA
> drives.
> Redundant power supply and redundant fans are also requirements either
> the multiple raid controller capability.
>
> Thanks in advance., Sandor

Hi Sandor

I personally would suggest to have a look at DotHill's S-ATA Special
Edition.
These Boxes are very nice priced and the only difference between the
normal and the special edition is:

- Restricted to max 3 TB (no additional JBODs
- 256 MB per Controller (instead of 1 GB)

They have FC connectors, so you'd have to buy some cheap HBA's on top
of it, but then you get a very reliable Solution.
Other vendors have offers too and my personal suggestion is, to stay
with a well know brand instead of buying something cheap and running
into problems with service and support in 2 Years, when the "cheap
players" are gone.


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> Hi Sandor
>
> I personally would suggest to have a look at DotHill's S-ATA Special
> Edition.

Sounds great 8)!

Do you know about these stuffs' price ? Just approximately.


thanks., Sandor

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Sandor Feher Wrote: 
>
> Sounds great 8)!
>
> Do you know about these stuffs' price ? Just approximately.
>
>
> thanks., Sandor

Hi Sandor

list prices are:
e.g.

2 TB, single controller: 11489 US$
3 TB single Controller: 13267
3 TB dual controller: 15677

all in US$ list


Which country do you live in? Maybe I can get someone to send you a
quote.

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Hi,

> Hi Sandor
>
> list prices are:
> e.g.
>
> 2 TB, single controller: 11489 US$
> 3 TB single Controller: 13267
> 3 TB dual controller: 15677

Good prices but unfortunately they don't fit into my budget 8(.

> all in US$ list
>
>
> Which country do you live in? Maybe I can get someone to send you a
> quote.

In Hungary. I would respect it anyway.

thanks., Sandor

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Sandor Feher wrote:
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> Hi,
> 
>
> Good prices but unfortunately they don't fit into my budget 8(.
> 
>
> In Hungary. I would respect it anyway.
>
> thanks., Sandor


Hi,

I don't know what your budget is, but there was a nice article in a
recent issue of Network Computing about "Fibre Channel on a Budget":

http://i.cmpnet.com/nc/1519/graphics/1519ws1_file.pdf

Jim

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Sandor Feher Wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>
> Good prices but unfortunately they don't fit into my budget 8(.
> 
>
> In Hungary. I would respect it anyway.
>
> thanks., Sandor

Hi Sandor

how can I contact you?

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Try nStor's S-ATA RAID. It supports up to 12 drives and dual controllers.
"Sandor Feher" <fehers@freemail.hu> wrote in message
news:aa31a635.0409300702.1c3a6a9@posting.google.com...
> Hi,
>
> I would like to make a two-nodes cluster from standard PCs and i'm
> looking for a SAN solution to give these nodes a shared storage
> subsystem.
> I'm not a hardware guru so please forgive me 8).
>
> It should be able to have 8 hot swap bays and the maximum capacity
> should be 2TB. I'm interested in only solutions which supports SATA
> drives.
> Redundant power supply and redundant fans are also requirements either
> the multiple raid controller capability.
>
> Thanks in advance., Sandor

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"Monte Oates" <fullmonte@shaw.ca> wrote in message news:<u9mdd.796848$gE.486614@pd7tw3no>...
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> Try nStor's S-ATA RAID. It supports up to 12 drives and dual controllers.
> "Sandor Feher" <fehers@freemail.hu> wrote in message
> news:aa31a635.0409300702.1c3a6a9@posting.google.com... 

We also make a new category of storage products called EtherDrive
storage blades.  These connect ATA disks directly to Ethernet and our
GPL'ed device drivers make them look like local drives.  You can have
any number of disks, from 1 to 40,000.  http://www.coraid.com. And it
works out to be <$2/GB.

Brantley Coile
bcoile@coraid.com

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