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

Nothing like flooding the place in gasoline and throwing in a hand grenade
to set it all off. <evil grin>

Jim

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[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Arthur Fuller
Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 1:39 PM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Better than RAID: The New Dobro Pro

Interesting alternate take. I suggest that you respond directly to the
author and see how he responds. Ignition!

Arthur

On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote:

> 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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