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You might be better off asking the starlink managers mailing list. Can't quite remember the list name at JISC now. Tim On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 6:02 AM, Astrophysics Computer Manager < [log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm wanting to know if anyone out there has any experience they can share > with > regards to storage facilities of >50TB. Here at UCLan we're looking to host > a > storage facility for solar data in the very near future. The main bulk of > the > data we'll be dealing with doesn't require really fast access and will > contain about 90,000 1-2MB files per day, and will be sharing out the data > to > half a dozen Postgres database servers. > > I've been looking at iSCSI solutions rather than standard SCSI and one > product > in particular is Dell's EqualLogic range which supports up to 50TB per > array > and is connected over dual GbE. You can apparently interlink these so that > is > can support 576TB of disk space. Does anyone have any experience of the > EqualLogic range? > > DNUK offer a Teravault RS6000 solution, 54TB per device (max of 16TB for a > physical partition). I've thought about buying a few of these and sharing > the > data over NFS on GbE, possibly using RDMA. This is a much cheaper solution > than Dell's EqualLogic range but I'm not sure if this would be a robust > solution and as expandable as the EqualLogic range. > > I'm speaking to a few suppliers to get their opinions on the best solution, > but I'd like know if there any SysAdmin people out there who have > experience > of installing, setup and manage the equipment. > > > Regards, > Steven > -- > Dr. Steven Chapman [log in to unmask] > Astrophysics Computer Manager > Jeremiah Horrocks Institute for Astrophysics & Supercomputing > School of Computing, Engineering and Physical Sciences > University of Central Lancashire Tel: +44 (0)1772 893564 > Preston, PR1 2HE, UK. Fax: +44 (0)1772 892996 >