Previously ad said:
Company is making preparations and research to set hudge repository
(hundreds of terabytes).
Outsourcing is taken under consideration.
Any information of firms offering such services will be apprecjated.
Regards
Darek
pardar (at) wp.pl
If you do it yourself, I have a bit of experience with
installations up to 10TB or so. Best approach for us was
to get 19" cases with a lot of SATA hot-swap enclosures.
We use 8 slot cases, since we also do a lot of computing,
but 12 Slot and 16 Slot are also possible. Get a RAID6
controller for each, put Linux in the box and get around
14TB per box (using 16 x 1TB drives). For controller I would
recommend 3ware, since they have native Linux support.
If speed and hot-swappability is not an issue you can
also use non-raid controllers and software RAID6.
Partition as needed and export with NFS over GbE.
This gives you something like 60% disk price and
40% overhead for the rest (not including electricity and
server room). The numbers will likely have changed again
and depend on the details. But if you buy something pre-made,
you typically pay 3-5 times the disk price, which is unreasonable
IMO.
Best also factor in two (!) competent (!) people to maintain
the installation.
Arno
