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    Dell PowerEdge C2100 with 24 Drive bays

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    • scottalanmillerS
      scottalanmiller
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      If you splurge to $2,352 you can leap to the 4TB RE drives and suddenly you have 40TB to work with!

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      • scottalanmillerS
        scottalanmiller
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        Now that remains SATA. If you are worried about performance the 4TB WD RE SAS drives will give you a huge boost in random access and only cost $2,436. Now that much more.

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        • scottalanmillerS
          scottalanmiller
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          And, of course, to overwhelm you with options, you could get WD RE 6TB drives and get 8 of them. This would be much slower and give you 36TB today in RAID 6. But over time you could grow up to 60TB in that setup. Up front 36TB cost would be $3,280.

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          • DustinB3403D
            DustinB3403
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            So 3TB Drives RAID 6.

            No write performance though from the RAID.

            Off Hypervisor, over the internet at 5841GB (30MBps pipe Asymetric) ...
            Weekly.... would take 21 Days to perform a single backup operation... (roughly)

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            • DustinB3403D
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              I'm thinking our internet performance would have to take a huge leap as well for off site.

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              • scottalanmillerS
                scottalanmiller
                last edited by

                At those speeds you don't care about the write penalties of the RAID 6, you just need enough performance to take the WAN pipe speeds, which is almost nothing.

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                • DustinB3403D
                  DustinB3403
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                  At least for weekly full backups. But if we only backup the primary drive (once a month)

                  We would reduce our storage needs, as well as bandwidth needs.

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                  • scottalanmillerS
                    scottalanmiller @DustinB3403
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                    @DustinB3403 said:
                    (30MBps pipe Asymetric) ...

                    I assume you mean 30Mb/s. 30MB/s is 240Mb/s!! That would be pretty awesome.

                    If asymmetric, what is the full speed up and down?

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                    • DustinB3403D
                      DustinB3403
                      last edited by

                      30 Up and down.

                      Each way, is that not asymmetric?

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                      • DustinB3403D
                        DustinB3403
                        last edited by

                        Mb/s sorry yeah not 30MB/s

                        😛

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                        • scottalanmillerS
                          scottalanmiller @DustinB3403
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                          @DustinB3403 said:

                          30 Up and down.

                          Each way, is that not asymmetric?

                          That's symmetric.

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                          • scottalanmillerS
                            scottalanmiller
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                            Symmetric means "same in all directions."

                            Asymmetric literally just means "not symmetric."

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                            • DustinB3403D
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                              Sorry.

                              Either way it would still take ~ 22 days to perform an off-site full.

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                              • scottalanmillerS
                                scottalanmiller
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                                Correct usage....

                                Check that girl out, she is hot, her face is so symmetric!

                                versus

                                Dude, that girl is all wonky, her face is totally asymmetric!

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                                • DustinB3403D
                                  DustinB3403
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                                  Which obviously isn't reasonable 😛

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                                  • DustinB3403D
                                    DustinB3403 @scottalanmiller
                                    last edited by DustinB3403

                                    @scottalanmiller said:

                                    Correct usage....

                                    Check that girl out, she is hot, her face is so symmetric!

                                    versus

                                    Dude, that girl is all wonky, her face is totally asymmetric!

                                    haha*... haha

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                                    • DustinB3403D
                                      DustinB3403
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                                      I'm starting a new topic as this one has diverged from the goal, as well as to clarify my thoughts.

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                                      • scottalanmillerS
                                        scottalanmiller
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                                        Weird how these things come in groups. Had someone else a day later try to use a Dell C series too.

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