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Easy should not mean expensive Hitachi.]]>Oct 15th 2007 12:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/15/hitachi-intros-simple-modular-storage-system/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/15/hitachi-intros-simple-modular-storage-system/
Can you still build one yourself? Sure, with a couple of high end (dual Gig-E NIC, fast scsi controlelr) Linux boxes to frontend the thing and act as redundant storage processors you could get there. You also need an extremely intimate knowledge of Linux HA, LVM, iSCSI enterprise target, samba, NFS, etc. and all the time to write software to manage the beast! You might squeeze it in under $5K not considering time, so have fun with that. You would be able to scale it cheaper though I guess.]]>Oct 15th 2007 4:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/15/hitachi-intros-simple-modular-storage-system/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/15/hitachi-intros-simple-modular-storage-system/
The NetApp StoreVault is not offered with dual controllers, but it is currently vastly more capable and solid compared to EMC's AX-150, which aside from having increased redundancy is a complete heap of crap and waste of space. I feel qualified to say this as I own and use both units and am really not 100% happy with either of them. It's very obvious to me that neither company understands the real needs of the market they are targeting. Hopefully Hitachi will not be so dumb.]]>Oct 15th 2007 12:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/15/hitachi-intros-simple-modular-storage-system/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/15/hitachi-intros-simple-modular-storage-system/and that's a matter of how lightweight the protocol is to the clients. that's what separates a NAS or a home brew linux raid box from higher end storage. ]]>Oct 15th 2007 2:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/15/hitachi-intros-simple-modular-storage-system/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/15/hitachi-intros-simple-modular-storage-system/
There's definitely a market for ]]>Oct 15th 2007 4:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/15/hitachi-intros-simple-modular-storage-system/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/15/hitachi-intros-simple-modular-storage-system/Oct 15th 2007 6:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/15/hitachi-intros-simple-modular-storage-system/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/15/hitachi-intros-simple-modular-storage-system/Oct 16th 2007 1:20PM