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Originally Posted by Quoth
I used to use RAID 5 with ultra wide & fast 10,000 rpm 20G SCSI drives. HW EISA RAID controller with onboard RAM, on board battery and a big UPS. Later PCI. Any server needs a UPS. Really workstions too; that's the advantage of a laptop. Very noisy and power hungry. It lived in the attic above the bathroom and the noise baffled visitors.
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The drives we used were SAS 7.2K rpm with 4 4TB SSDs (two per controller) as the cache. The controllers were slide-in modules so in theory if one failed, you could hot swap it. When I dug below the GUI, the controllers were running a modified Linux with an i5 CPU and 64GB of RAM per controller. It made a great backup device for the virtualization servers. I'm still not overly fond of iSCSI though a lot easier to configure than a Fibre Channel connection.