Typical solutions for backup, log files, email servers, databases all seem to cost $5K to $8K a TB over a 3 year period, including "support". Anyone with production experience with large scale disk storage that breaks the $1K/TB price point (raid'd)?
@latch - Yes, we saw it - would be a fun project, but we are software hackers :-) There are also concerns about heat, vibration, hot swapping, etc. I would happily spend $78K for that same storage instead of $7.8K if it was reliable and was shipped as a complete package.
Closest company doing something like this is CORAID, which might be an option, but they have a number of proprietary interfaces/systems to buy in to.
Need disk storage, would like to use 7200rpm for real-time access to logs, 15k for database/email apps
Would be a lot of fun to roll our own, but we are resource constrained, and while money is not an issue for us, I don't like complicated/expensive solutions, I like simple/inexpensive
Looking at NetApp for example, but having a hard time accepting the price point.
Closest company doing something like this is CORAID, which might be an option, but they have a number of proprietary interfaces/systems to buy in to.