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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">This seems like a good time to make a
plug for my freenas classes :)<br>
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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..<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.freenas.org/freenas-zfs-training/">http://www.freenas.org/freenas-zfs-training/</a><br>
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On 4/10/15 10:26 AM, Andrew S. Zbikowski wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">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.
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<div>Beyond that, I'm not much of a hardware freak. Spoiled by
enterprise solutions and enterprise service contracts I
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 11:59 PM, Ryan
Coleman <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">90 days
and $17,000 later I have my 13TB array recovered.<br>
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Thank goodness for business insurance!<br>
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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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
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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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
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