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 -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Arthur Fuller Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 10:11 AM To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: [dba-Tech] Better than RAID: The New Dobro Pro Interesting article here: http://blogs.zdnet.com/storage/?p=454&tag=nl.e040 Arthur _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com