[NTLUG:Discuss] NAS devices

[MadHat Unspecific]

Ralph wrote:
> Howdy,
>   I get to spec out and probably buy a NAS for the office.  I see some 2
> U servers that have 8 exposed 2.5 inch drive bays.  When I think of 2.5
> inch hard drives, I don't think of drives that can take heavy use.  Are
> these new drives built better than laptop drives?  Is SAS better than
> SATA?  SAS drives seem to go up to 146 GIG and SATA up to 500 GIG.  At
> least, that is what Pogo Linux says.  I don't need huge amounts of
> throughput.  But, reliability is very important.  Any comments?

I can only speak from personal experience.  I do IT consulting and I 
have installed several 1U servers for clients over the past few years. 
I have seen more and more starting to use the 2.5" drives.  They can fit 
3-4 drives in the 1U to use RAID 5, where before it would only hold 2 
drives.  In the time I have used these, I have only had 1 drive fail out 
of 50 or so.  The speed and size of these drives has seemed fine.  I was 
shocked when I first saw them as well, but have been happy with the lack 
of issues I have seen.


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