Proliant GL360 G5 worth the price?

I have 2 DL380 G5's still in production (8 years old). I want to migrate off of them and use them as a backup applicance - but damn the drives are not cheap.
RAID 6 - eight 1 TB drives would cost me around $2K, and give me 6 TB of storage.

Makes me seriously consider other choices which cheaper drive options, but then with a chassis for them, still looking around the same cost and no compute power (thinking NAS).

scottalanmiller

@Dashrender said:

RAID 6 - eight 1 TB drives would cost me around $2K, and give me 6 TB of storage.

That's a lot considering for backup you can get a 6TB RAID 1 array for a fraction of that cost.

Dashrender

@scottalanmiller said:

@Dashrender said:

RAID 6 - eight 1 TB drives would cost me around $2K, and give me 6 TB of storage.

That's a lot considering for backup you can get a 6TB RAID 1 array for a fraction of that cost.

That's my point! Of course for the DL380 G5, you can't get 6 TB drives. My machine only takes 2.5" drives, huge limitations

DustinB3403

I found a 2TB 2.5 7200 SAS Drive for $399.99 ..

Jason

We only use servers that take 2.5" drives anymore. More density. The backup servers we have Sata drives instead of SAS though, since it's not live data, there's only about 30 VMs bening backuped up to each backup server. Actual servers have no local storage.

scottalanmiller

@Dashrender said:

That's my point! Of course for the DL380 G5, you can't get 6 TB drives. My machine only takes 2.5" drives, huge limitations

With 6TB drives you just need two and a $299 Synology and you have that much

scottalanmiller

Plus with a new NAS you get a warranty again, even if not of the same caliber. But if parts fail, they get replaced.

Dashrender

@scottalanmiller said:

Plus with a new NAS you get a warranty again, even if not of the same caliber. But if parts fail, they get replaced.

LOL at that price I'm not sure I care about the warranty.

The problem with this solution is no compute power. AND I need to make sure I don't have throughput issues.

scottalanmiller

@Dashrender said:

The problem with this solution is no compute power.

Why is that an issue? Once you have more power than you can leverage, why get more? More just costs more at the plug. Lower compute power more appropriate for your needs is actually a bonus.

scottalanmiller

@Dashrender said:

LOL at that price I'm not sure I care about the warranty.

It's still valuable. Everything is covered for years at under half the total price!

scottalanmiller

@Dashrender said:

AND I need to make sure I don't have throughput issues.

That's the only concern, are RAID 1 drives fast enough to take the data ingress.

Dashrender

@scottalanmiller said:

@Dashrender said:

AND I need to make sure I don't have throughput issues.

That's the only concern, are RAID 1 drives fast enough to take the data ingress.

I actually don't know - as much as I spout to others "what IOPs do you need" I've never successfully discovered my own need. I've tried a few tools a few times and walked away a day or two later just confused. Hard to admit..

I do admit I need help in getting that working so I can use it.

scottalanmiller

It'll be IOPS, not throughput, that is your bottleneck here, most likely. You might need to go to a four bay unit. That will double the ingress rate. And 7200 RPM drives are a must, that means Red Pro, 5400 are almost certainly going to be too slow.

What data is being sent to this? How much over what period of time?

scottalanmiller

Actually, don't answer that here. Post a new thread asking the question and just link to here as a reference. Put in the info about the $2K 2.5" RAID 6 idea and the NAS with SATA drives idea and let's run through some diagnostics.