[SLL] Hardware Recommendation

[Steve Herber]

I have been considering your option 3 for my file server and I am
tempted to run Solaris or open solaris and use the ZFS filesystem:

 	http://opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/

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Steve Herber	herber at thing.com		work: 206-221-7262
Security Engineer, UW Medicine, IT Services	home: 425-454-2399

On Thu, 5 Jun 2008, Dave Pfaltzgraff wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> After around 10 years of providing reliable service, I'm afraid that my
> home server may be dying on me. Configured back then with Slackware ?.?, I
> had implemented software RAID using some 3G SCSI drives. Since this system
> is used to backup critical files, the RAID function is important. My PC
> vendor is suggesting I go to a system with an Intel DQ35JO motherboard
> because it has hardware RAID capability. I'm not sure which chip sets are
> used and subsequently wether or not I would have Linux support.
>
> I should comment that when I originally built the system the fact that it
> was Linux was important, but recently it sole use has been for the RAID
> storage. Although I am definitely pro-Linux, I am no longer involved with
> it on a day-to-day basis. My concern is (semi)automatic backup of critical
> files.
>
> I know I may be opening a can of worms but I'd be interested in
> recommendations from the group. Some of my options are:
>
> 1. Forget doing it myself and utilize an off-site backup service.
>
> 2. Go to some form of NAS - say from DLink or Linksys.
>
> 3. Go ahead and build up a new system (and I have the above headache!)
>
> Note that one requirement is easy (preferable invisible) access from
> Windows systems. The original implementation did this by putting the SAMBA
> share on the RAID.
>
> Thanks,
> Dave
>