[XCSSA] Recommendations for a SAMBA/NAS device?

[X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio]

On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 10:55 AM, X-otic Computer Systems of San
Antonio <xcssa at xcssa.org> wrote:

> I don't mean to sound harsh.. but what you need to do is to look in to using
> a "real RAID card" with battery backed up cache, write back cache, and power
> control so that when he array is not being written to.. the drives can be
> spun down.  Then when a write happens.. it writes to the cache and goes on
> while the RAID card wakes up the drives and spins them up.  Some reads can
> even stay cached.
>
> Some OTS home-NAS systems do this now.  But nicer RAID cards that can handle
> this type of stuff are the nicer LSI, Adaptec and 3Ware IIRC SATA and SAS
> cards.

I think the real question is, is it worth the cost of the new wiz bang
hardware versus his existing electrical bill? To me it doesn't make
sense to spend $1000 on new hardware to save $5 a month on your
electric bill.

Jeremy

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