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 m
ore stable than ImageSAN.

Could anybody suggest something else from the cheapest side.

Thanks
Priit

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On Mon, 4 Oct 2004 15:30:30 +0300, "Priit Poldmaa" <priit@joosti.ee>
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>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 filesyste
m.
>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 abou
t $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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