An interesting announcement:
http://www.tomsnetworking.com/News_story_1209.php
Involves IP based expandable storage using 2 drive enclosures. Doesn't support RAID 5, but supports RAID 10 with some variations with linked enclosures that allow multiple non-adjacent drives to fail.
Looks like each enclosure will cost around $115.
Considering you would not need a high end SATA RAID card (or equivalent) it looks to be a little cheaper than the enclosure + SATA RAID card solution as:
Old scenario:
Enclosure - $120
RAID Card - $250
Total = $370
New Scenario:
Enclosure $115 * 2 = $230
RAID Card - $50 (this is assuming you don't already have SATA ports open)
Total = $280 (assuming you buy it all at once, you can buy an enclosure at a time)
It appears the greater security comes from more drives, I'm curious to see how this does. It is very interesting as it is scalable in a fashion that is not (as) and you can continue to expand. It also seems that if you have multiple servers (I'm sure noone here has that...) you can chain storage off those machines but tie them together.
http://www.tomsnetworking.com/News_story_1209.php
Involves IP based expandable storage using 2 drive enclosures. Doesn't support RAID 5, but supports RAID 10 with some variations with linked enclosures that allow multiple non-adjacent drives to fail.
Looks like each enclosure will cost around $115.
Considering you would not need a high end SATA RAID card (or equivalent) it looks to be a little cheaper than the enclosure + SATA RAID card solution as:
Old scenario:
Enclosure - $120
RAID Card - $250
Total = $370
New Scenario:
Enclosure $115 * 2 = $230
RAID Card - $50 (this is assuming you don't already have SATA ports open)
Total = $280 (assuming you buy it all at once, you can buy an enclosure at a time)
It appears the greater security comes from more drives, I'm curious to see how this does. It is very interesting as it is scalable in a fashion that is not (as) and you can continue to expand. It also seems that if you have multiple servers (I'm sure noone here has that...) you can chain storage off those machines but tie them together.