[dba-Tech] Better than RAID: The New Dobro Pro

Jim Lawrence accessd at shaw.ca
Mon Apr 13 15:07:32 CDT 2009


Hi Arthur:

Those systems may sound interesting but at the cost of a server based
machine the solution is not a cheap one. The weak link is always the hard
drives and that can not be improved. With so many low cost solutions
(Linux/windows OS NAS) or inexpensive ones (bigger business speaking) like
big rack mounts and totally hot-swappable hard drives and plug in
motherboards, this solution does not seem that good. 

Tera-Byte drives sell at around $100 to $200. We built a full auto-backup
system, for a non-profit society, from a few junker computers at around
$500.00. (We donated our time though)

Jim 

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Interesting article here: http://blogs.zdnet.com/storage/?p=454&tag=nl.e040

Arthur
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