Thanks to:
Jeff Kennedy, Bashar, Sean Ward, Rahul Roy, Ed Finch, Jason Kruse,
Ronald Loftin, and Seth Rothenberg.
There were favorable responses toward SSAs, the newer Ax000 arrays from
Sun, Network Appliance arrays, and towards the Multipacks. A couple of
people pointed out that software RAID V is quite slow, and that I'd be
better off buying the extra disk space and going with
striping/mirroring.
Since it would probably be too expensive to buy anything different, and
since nobody really said anything negative about them, I bought extra
SCSI adapters and I'm sticking with the Multipacks. I decided against
using RAID V, and went with mirroring and striping. It was much easier
than I had been imagining.
Thanks for all the help!
Ross Helfand
Original Question:
>
> Hello Managers,
>
> We have 2 Enterprise 3000s on which we are going to load Veritas'
> FirstWatch. Currently, I have a couple of Multipacks with six, 9GB
> drives and one with 12 2.1GB drives that I was going to use to create my
> file systems.
>
> We'd like to use a mix of RAID V and mirroring, and I'm not really sure
> if Multipacks are the way to go. First of all, with the 9GB Multipacks,
> there aren't a lot of spindles to create these RAID and mirrored file
> systems. Second, it's not very scalable.
>
> I was wondering what kinds of enterprise storage solutions you all were
> using, and what you thought of them. I wouldn't call our application
> "mission critical," so hardware RAID is probably not necessary for us.
> Cost is, of course, an issue. We'll probably need approximately 150GB
> total to start, and I wouldn't imagine it would grow THAT much, but ...
> you never know!
>
> Thanks!
> Ross Helfand
> Census Bureau
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