![]() ![]() He doesn't want a NAS, and was specifically looking at a DAS, which by definition is "a digital storage directly attached to the computer accessing it", so I'm not sure why all the hub-bub about what it's called, since any simple usb drive could be classified as such. Secondly, you don't know the customer, the environment, or the situation, whereas I do. My DevOps do a lot of ZoL and Ceph, but I'd rather avoid them for beginners.įirst of all, thank you for your help. For anything above that we do commodity servers, Linux + ext4/btrfs or FreeBSD + ZFS. A Drobo 5C, with 20TB of storage is right around $1100 with my vendor, so what can you recommend with the same setup but using ext4/btrfs?įor cheap easy to manage 2-disk units we do Synology and Netgear, simple 4-8-10TB disks in RAID1. I've loved the Drobo's I've used, and this would just be simple, dumb USB 3.0 connected DAS. Stick with something doing ext4 or btrfs inside.Ģ) Don't allow your NAS appliance manage backups - it's your backup application job! They use proprietary BeyondRAID layout and there are too many issues around it. ![]() Have you tried recovering the whole server ?ġ) Try to avoid Drobo. Most of us are recommending to use a NASĥ. Cheap vs reliability and performance.we are not saying $1100 vs $10K.but probably $1100 vs $1500.Ĭoz if your organisation cannot afford a $2000 20TB NAS for backup, your management would really need to put some serious thought to why it needs that big a file server in the first place ?Ĥ. You cannot call plugging a USB removable storage and call it DAS.Ģ. Drobo 5C is not a NAS.its just a USB storage like "non-portable" USB HDD.Its not a DAS.its just plugging a USB device into a server.ĭAS devices can connect to PCs and servers via a variety of protocols, including SCSI, SAS, SATA, ATA, eSATA and Fibre Channel.never USB ! I’ve really liked the Drobos I’ve used, so I’m not as worried about the hardware piece, but any other recommendations for the software/setup side.ġ. User wants to add the ability to have multiple backup versions of files/directories. Looking at going with a Drobo 5C for the file server DAS and then Second Copy for the program. Any thoughts, other recommendations? I’m trying to stay as cheap as I can.
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