I'd go up to RAID 6 for additional fault tolerance. It takes the death of three disks to kill RAID 6, and backup to something. For twice the price you can buy a second NAS and backup to that, or if you have a LTO library handy you could write to multiple tapes depending on what's important. Beyond that, I'm not much of a hardware freak. Spoiled by enterprise solutions and enterprise service contracts I suppose. :) On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 11:59 PM, Ryan Coleman <ryan.coleman at cwis.biz> wrote: > 90 days and $17,000 later I have my 13TB array recovered. > > Thank goodness for business insurance! > > So I have the need to build a bigger, better, smarter storage system. > Presently I'm looking at 16x3TB drives and a RAID 5 running in ESXi... But > it's time to consider alternatives... NAS, SAN, something. > > I've avoided ZFS talk for years because it never applied, and FreeNAS is > definitely up my alley with 14 years FreeBSD experience - but what would > you do? Primary function is long-term data storage but also serving up many > network services as well as development projects. > > I have an LSI MegaRAID 9240-8i with a SAS expander and would be maxing out > the 16 RAID drives for that if I go with a RAID but I really want knowledge > on personal experiences with various NAS options. > > One requirement: Must be iSCSI capable with ESXi 5.5 (free license). ESXi > machine is super-loaded (6 core Sandy bridge Xeon and 32GB) but was design > for the future growth. > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20150410/fc6bf2a8/attachment.html>