[Samba] Samba Server Specifications

[Aaron Kincer]

Relatively speaking, not expensive at all. You can get a Dell PowerVault 
loaded with SAS 320GB 15K at ridiculously low prices if you catch them 
around the end of a business quarter. They practically give stuff away 
to boost sales numbers for quarterly reports.

Charles Marcus wrote:
> Aaron Kincer wrote:
>> RAID 10 is very good, but does have the downside of requiring quite a 
>> few disks to achieve large amounts of storage.
>
> Thats its only downside... but I love the performance and reliability. 
> And with disks as cheap as they are today, using an Areca or 3ware 
> card with 8 320GB drives is not all that expensive (well, not compared 
> to 15K SCSI RAID)... LOTS of space, at least for my needs... :)
>