This seems like a good time to make a plug for my freenas classes :) There is a free intro class that runs every day. Grab it in the next week or so, cuz it's changing to be much smaller.. http://www.freenas.org/freenas-zfs-training/ lk On 4/10/15 10:26 AM, Andrew S. Zbikowski wrote: > 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 > <mailto: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 <mailto:tclug-list at mn-linux.org> > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/20150410/81575fd7/attachment.html>