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      Jason Banned @scottalanmiller
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      @scottalanmiller said:

      Have you looked at the Drobo options? RAID 6 on those with SSD tiering option.

      To pricey when they hold enough drives.. unless Drobo wants to give me one.

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      • DashrenderD
        Dashrender
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        Yeah - it's funny - "drives are cheap, drives are cheap" I hear all the time, and so often, the drive subsystem is 2-3 times the cost of the computational and RAM portions. Drives are definitely not cheap. And good storage arrays are not cheap either.

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          Jason Banned @Dashrender
          last edited by

          @Dashrender said:

          Yeah - it's funny - "drives are cheap, drives are cheap" I hear all the time, and so often, the drive subsystem is 2-3 times the cost of the computational and RAM portions. Drives are definitely not cheap. And good storage arrays are not cheap either.

          Drive are cheap. Raid controllers and enclosures aren't.

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          • gjacobseG
            gjacobse @Jason
            last edited by

            @Jason said:

            @Dashrender said:

            Yeah - it's funny - "drives are cheap, drives are cheap" I hear all the time, and so often, the drive subsystem is 2-3 times the cost of the computational and RAM portions. Drives are definitely not cheap. And good storage arrays are not cheap either.

            Drive are cheap. Raid controllers and enclosures aren't.

            Yea,.. I just put a ReadyNAS 314 online here,.. Cost kept me from really pushing the drives like I may have should. I should have gone Diskless and picked up the drives over a month. Ah well. Live/Learn/Repeat.

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              Jason Banned @gjacobse
              last edited by Jason

              @gjacobse said:

              @Jason said:

              @Dashrender said:

              Yeah - it's funny - "drives are cheap, drives are cheap" I hear all the time, and so often, the drive subsystem is 2-3 times the cost of the computational and RAM portions. Drives are definitely not cheap. And good storage arrays are not cheap either.

              Drive are cheap. Raid controllers and enclosures aren't.

              Yea,.. I just put a ReadyNAS 314 online here,.. Cost kept me from really pushing the drives like I may have should. I should have gone Diskless and picked up the drives over a month. Ah well. Live/Learn/Repeat.

              Some day we won't need enclousres, they will just use PCIE/thunderbolt on the drives themselves then you can just chain them all together and then plug into the computer...

              Edit: I should be clear Thunderbolt is PCIE that's what I put both.

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                Jason Banned
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                spin off here: http://mangolassi.it/topic/8590/when-will-sata-be-dead

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                • MattSpellerM
                  MattSpeller
                  last edited by MattSpeller

                  If you want one that actually works nicely and "does what it says on the tin" then check out these bad boys.

                  http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822108185 (Canadian link, Canadian $$$)

                  For cheaper you could whitebox a solution but then it'd be network only.

                  Edit: why not network it? I've seen you ask for local connections but no reason for it.

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                    Jason Banned @MattSpeller
                    last edited by Jason

                    @MattSpeller said:

                    If you want one that actually works nicely and "does what it says on the tin" then check out these bad boys.

                    http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822108185 (Canadian link, Canadian $$$)

                    For cheaper you could whitebox a solution but then it'd be network only.

                    Edit: why not network it? I've seen you ask for local connections but no reason for it.

                    Needs to be DAS. NAS isn't nearly fast enough for the data. also Macbooks are Wifi only making it worse.

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                    • scottalanmillerS
                      scottalanmiller @Jason
                      last edited by

                      @Jason said:

                      Needs to be DAS. NAS isn't nearly fast enough for the data. also Macbooks are Wifi only making it worse.

                      Thunderbolt gives them GigE.

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                      • DashrenderD
                        Dashrender @Jason
                        last edited by

                        @Jason said:

                        @MattSpeller said:

                        If you want one that actually works nicely and "does what it says on the tin" then check out these bad boys.

                        http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822108185 (Canadian link, Canadian $$$)

                        For cheaper you could whitebox a solution but then it'd be network only.

                        Edit: why not network it? I've seen you ask for local connections but no reason for it.

                        Needs to be DAS. NAS isn't nearly fast enough for the data. also Macbooks are Wifi only making it worse.

                        What kind of connector on the DAS are you using?

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                        • scottalanmillerS
                          scottalanmiller @Dashrender
                          last edited by

                          @Dashrender said:

                          @Jason said:

                          @MattSpeller said:

                          If you want one that actually works nicely and "does what it says on the tin" then check out these bad boys.

                          http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822108185 (Canadian link, Canadian $$$)

                          For cheaper you could whitebox a solution but then it'd be network only.

                          Edit: why not network it? I've seen you ask for local connections but no reason for it.

                          Needs to be DAS. NAS isn't nearly fast enough for the data. also Macbooks are Wifi only making it worse.

                          What kind of connector on the DAS are you using?

                          He wants Thunderbolt 🙂

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                          • MattSpellerM
                            MattSpeller @Jason
                            last edited by MattSpeller

                            @Jason said:

                            @MattSpeller said:

                            If you want one that actually works nicely and "does what it says on the tin" then check out these bad boys.

                            http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822108185 (Canadian link, Canadian $$$)

                            For cheaper you could whitebox a solution but then it'd be network only.

                            Edit: why not network it? I've seen you ask for local connections but no reason for it.

                            Needs to be DAS. NAS isn't nearly fast enough for the data. also Macbooks are Wifi only making it worse.

                            In my experience you'll have better performance from gigabit ethernet than you will with USB3. eSATA would be better than both, but not by much. Can't speak to thunderbolt.

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                              Jason Banned @MattSpeller
                              last edited by

                              @MattSpeller said:

                              @Jason said:

                              @MattSpeller said:

                              If you want one that actually works nicely and "does what it says on the tin" then check out these bad boys.

                              http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822108185 (Canadian link, Canadian $$$)

                              For cheaper you could whitebox a solution but then it'd be network only.

                              Edit: why not network it? I've seen you ask for local connections but no reason for it.

                              Needs to be DAS. NAS isn't nearly fast enough for the data. also Macbooks are Wifi only making it worse.

                              In my experience you'll have better performance from gigabit ethernet than you will with USB3. eSATA would be better than both, but not by much. Can't speak to thunderbolt.

                              You must have a bad USB3 controller then 🙂 Gigabit throubhput is way less than USB3

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                              • scottalanmillerS
                                scottalanmiller @MattSpeller
                                last edited by

                                @MattSpeller said:

                                @Jason said:

                                @MattSpeller said:

                                If you want one that actually works nicely and "does what it says on the tin" then check out these bad boys.

                                http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822108185 (Canadian link, Canadian $$$)

                                For cheaper you could whitebox a solution but then it'd be network only.

                                Edit: why not network it? I've seen you ask for local connections but no reason for it.

                                Needs to be DAS. NAS isn't nearly fast enough for the data. also Macbooks are Wifi only making it worse.

                                In my experience you'll have better performance from gigabit ethernet than you will with USB3. eSATA would be better than both, but not by much. Can't speak to thunderbolt.

                                GigE can easily be carried over USB3. USB3 is much faster... lower latency, higher throughput.

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                                • scottalanmillerS
                                  scottalanmiller @Jason
                                  last edited by

                                  @Jason said:

                                  @MattSpeller said:

                                  @Jason said:

                                  @MattSpeller said:

                                  If you want one that actually works nicely and "does what it says on the tin" then check out these bad boys.

                                  http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822108185 (Canadian link, Canadian $$$)

                                  For cheaper you could whitebox a solution but then it'd be network only.

                                  Edit: why not network it? I've seen you ask for local connections but no reason for it.

                                  Needs to be DAS. NAS isn't nearly fast enough for the data. also Macbooks are Wifi only making it worse.

                                  In my experience you'll have better performance from gigabit ethernet than you will with USB3. eSATA would be better than both, but not by much. Can't speak to thunderbolt.

                                  You must have a bad USB3 controller then 🙂 Gigabit throubhput is way less than USB3

                                  Only 20% of it!

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                                  • MattSpellerM
                                    MattSpeller @Jason
                                    last edited by

                                    @Jason said:

                                    @MattSpeller said:

                                    @Jason said:

                                    @MattSpeller said:

                                    If you want one that actually works nicely and "does what it says on the tin" then check out these bad boys.

                                    http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822108185 (Canadian link, Canadian $$$)

                                    For cheaper you could whitebox a solution but then it'd be network only.

                                    Edit: why not network it? I've seen you ask for local connections but no reason for it.

                                    Needs to be DAS. NAS isn't nearly fast enough for the data. also Macbooks are Wifi only making it worse.

                                    In my experience you'll have better performance from gigabit ethernet than you will with USB3. eSATA would be better than both, but not by much. Can't speak to thunderbolt.

                                    You must have a bad USB3 controller then 🙂 Gigabit throubhput is way less than USB3

                                    ¯\(ツ)/¯

                                    Possible, the USB3 stuff we have is old

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                                    • DashrenderD
                                      Dashrender @MattSpeller
                                      last edited by

                                      @MattSpeller said:

                                      @Jason said:

                                      @MattSpeller said:

                                      If you want one that actually works nicely and "does what it says on the tin" then check out these bad boys.

                                      http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822108185 (Canadian link, Canadian $$$)

                                      For cheaper you could whitebox a solution but then it'd be network only.

                                      Edit: why not network it? I've seen you ask for local connections but no reason for it.

                                      Needs to be DAS. NAS isn't nearly fast enough for the data. also Macbooks are Wifi only making it worse.

                                      In my experience you'll have better performance from gigabit ethernet than you will with USB3. eSATA would be better than both, but not by much. Can't speak to thunderbolt.

                                      Exactly what I was thinking... he thumbed his nose at NAS - I was assuming a 1 Gbe connection - I suppose if you really need the slight edge eSATA can provide.. fine.. or thunderbolt assuming it's even faster.. but damn.. I've been pretty happy with 1 Gbe as long as the controller in the NAS is decent.

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                                      • scottalanmillerS
                                        scottalanmiller
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                                        What are you running over it that would test the speed at all? The thing that I find with USB3 is that I never have anything to hook to it that can use the speed so it is all wasted.

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                                          Jason Banned @Dashrender
                                          last edited by

                                          @Dashrender said:

                                          @MattSpeller said:

                                          @Jason said:

                                          @MattSpeller said:

                                          If you want one that actually works nicely and "does what it says on the tin" then check out these bad boys.

                                          http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822108185 (Canadian link, Canadian $$$)

                                          For cheaper you could whitebox a solution but then it'd be network only.

                                          Edit: why not network it? I've seen you ask for local connections but no reason for it.

                                          Needs to be DAS. NAS isn't nearly fast enough for the data. also Macbooks are Wifi only making it worse.

                                          In my experience you'll have better performance from gigabit ethernet than you will with USB3. eSATA would be better than both, but not by much. Can't speak to thunderbolt.

                                          Exactly what I was thinking... he thumbed his nose at NAS - I was assuming a 1 Gbe connection - I suppose if you really need the slight edge eSATA can provide.. fine.. or thunderbolt assuming it's even faster.. but damn.. I've been pretty happy with 1 Gbe as long as the controller in the NAS is decent.

                                          Gigabit Can't handle RAW 4k-8k Video files haha

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                                          • DashrenderD
                                            Dashrender @Jason
                                            last edited by

                                            @Jason said:

                                            @Dashrender said:

                                            @MattSpeller said:

                                            @Jason said:

                                            @MattSpeller said:

                                            If you want one that actually works nicely and "does what it says on the tin" then check out these bad boys.

                                            http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822108185 (Canadian link, Canadian $$$)

                                            For cheaper you could whitebox a solution but then it'd be network only.

                                            Edit: why not network it? I've seen you ask for local connections but no reason for it.

                                            Needs to be DAS. NAS isn't nearly fast enough for the data. also Macbooks are Wifi only making it worse.

                                            In my experience you'll have better performance from gigabit ethernet than you will with USB3. eSATA would be better than both, but not by much. Can't speak to thunderbolt.

                                            Exactly what I was thinking... he thumbed his nose at NAS - I was assuming a 1 Gbe connection - I suppose if you really need the slight edge eSATA can provide.. fine.. or thunderbolt assuming it's even faster.. but damn.. I've been pretty happy with 1 Gbe as long as the controller in the NAS is decent.

                                            Gigabit Can't handle RAW 4k-8k Video files haha

                                            Serious question, what can? What do you need bandwidth wise for that? 2 Gb? 10 Gb?

                                            While sure people like Scott want to do this crazy 4/8K video stuff, that's either a maxed out prosumer thing, or clearly mid class business stuff, and you should be through some real capital at solving that problem, not chump change.

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