In mailservers and high performance boxen I use ICP Vortex SCSI controllers with 4 drives, 1 hot swap and 3 RAID 5. Very Expensive. Then I use Escalade 6400 for IDE RAID. High performance from cheap drives. Both are linux compatible. Kent Schumacher wrote: > I'm brainstorming (with myself!) storage solutions for a > Linux based X-Windows applications server. > > What are people out there using? > > Internal SCSI RAID, external SCSI attached RAID, NAS, SAN, ???. > > How do you rate things for performance, price, and reliability? > Are there any things to be concerned about under linux? > > I'm not looking for definitive HOWTO's, I'm just wondering about > the groups personal experiences and opinions. > > Reliability is probably primary. I would like to set it up, lock > my office door, crawl out the window and walk down the tracks to > the bar every day for the next five years without any inconvenient > admin crap to do... > > We all have our dreams... > Kent > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org > For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org