I dunno what the budget is, I've not had time to watch it all. however getting a second hand dell md3060 (they are rebadged from an OEM) for about £1k is also a good option.
Its 60drives and mostly bulletproof. Downside is that you'll either need SAS controller on your server, or find the vanishingly rare Sata controllers.
JBOD that badboy into ZFS and you'll have something fast enough for most things (streaming)
How we used them was hardware raid 7 in 4 groups of 13 with the rest as hot spares. LVM raid 0 and good to go (this was a time before production ZFS on linux)
I'm not sure what the compatibility is with larger sata drives given how old it is. I suspect you might be limited to JBOD.
Yeah I've deffo seen them on Netapps, but I'm not entirely convinced they are made by them. I saw some OEM versions of them "naked" as it were, but I can't remember what the company was called.
When you look at them, they really don't have the same style as netapp did at the time.
Its 60drives and mostly bulletproof. Downside is that you'll either need SAS controller on your server, or find the vanishingly rare Sata controllers.
JBOD that badboy into ZFS and you'll have something fast enough for most things (streaming)
How we used them was hardware raid 7 in 4 groups of 13 with the rest as hot spares. LVM raid 0 and good to go (this was a time before production ZFS on linux)
I'm not sure what the compatibility is with larger sata drives given how old it is. I suspect you might be limited to JBOD.