]> http://lopsa.org/taxonomy/term/157/0 en http://lopsa.org/node/860 <p> Daniel Feenburg at <a href="http://nber.org">NBER</a> writes a <a href="http://www.nber.org/sys-admin/linux-nas-raid.html">good review</a> comparing performance, reliability, price, and other aspects of common RAID NAS solutions. Among those covered are <a href="http://netapp.com">Netapp</a>, <a href="http://dnfstorage.com">DNF</a>, <a href="http://www.emdstorage.com/">Excel-Meridian</a>, and Linux white-box with RedHat Linux and <a href="http://www.promise.com">promise</a> IDE controller. </p> <p> What makes this version somewhat unique is it deals with the problem of secondary unrecoverable bit-errors that were previously undetected but manifest themselves when you go to rebuild a failed drive. This problem is more common than one would hope, and it is explained well. </p> <!-- <rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:trackback="http://madskills.com/public/xml/rss/module/trackback/"> <rdf:Description rdf:about="http://lopsa.org/node/860" dc:identifier="http://lopsa.org/node/860" dc:title="NAS appliances comparisons and pitfalls" trackback:ping="http://lopsa.org/trackback/860" /> </rdf:RDF> --> NAS Sun, 29 Oct 2006 17:23:03 -0800 doug