On 12/02 10:03 , Linda Kateley wrote: > They can have multiple day downtime with no problem. They do no clustering. > Academia is quite often this way.. > > If you wanted to build this more reliable, you could go sas with > multipathing or even run multiple sata controllers and do manual import.. I > usually recommend 2 head nodes and 2 paths to each storage chain.. But this > still could be done under probably 150k. ok. Thanks for the update! -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com