From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 7 08:46:56 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BFE0106566C for ; Wed, 7 Jul 2010 08:46:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kraduk@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f54.google.com (mail-fx0-f54.google.com [209.85.161.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B02068FC12 for ; Wed, 7 Jul 2010 08:46:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm13 with SMTP id 13so5807675fxm.13 for ; Wed, 07 Jul 2010 01:46:47 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=tGLlSrjmt2sbLWVrHP9o9I7BuM78e8p4t4U2QHGFIyM=; b=Vb+3PEdBfOlCZOlzP5UzIFCwIcvia1BcXQaqQztKDJUcpN9ZGaiEQdokwzNi4iy42r r9EMdqYNGV41D9PxCs5XMamtSPKRx5m6MMVTvlju0Y0O9LMGlm7a075yd5gMvK3IqiBu e7E14x2W4IlgbvzqW6eG2xgBdQygwPyBo4m8I= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=AIzXzeRzF3j1/5TG/TTmllEpRVsKzyWZgJNZaHZR1dCZF/lCsp1yjeIUXwv6Z4fYEE i4C+edXFefqZhVt1avcr/QdO5IMgbwk5zqWnzfXw/QB/bGF7pYDA8oUE5ujRLIm1ExS5 zN0ZZoF/THnmweEL7wrRInkzkB5hgomnoOhYQ= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.239.162.200 with SMTP id m8mr659632hbd.112.1278492407202; Wed, 07 Jul 2010 01:46:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.239.161.199 with HTTP; Wed, 7 Jul 2010 01:46:47 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <201007070129.o671THDK067603@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> References: <4C3108B6.8070606@tundraware.com> <201007070129.o671THDK067603@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2010 09:46:47 +0100 Message-ID: From: krad To: Olivier Nicole Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Global backup solution for FBSD & Ubuntu X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2010 08:46:56 -0000 > I used to use tapes, I have changed for disks, it is much much faster > and easier. And cheaper! In a 3U enclosure you can have 16 disks, for > 32TB of storage. > A sun x4500 can get 48 drives in 4u. Its intel based so should run freebsd ok if you want to. Not sure what the max drive size is but you should be looking at about ~30-70 TB depending on drive size and array configuration