YASC , Yet another system corrupted!

[vkeven]

I've had many "system corrupted" errors, but have never lost data on the open-e systems. It is incredibly annoying that it happens (and open-e probably should switch to a filesystem like JFFS2 which is designed to be used on flash), but you just swap out the module or boot from a CD and your data is still there, safe and sound.

There's also the option of installing open-e dss (atlanta i.e. build 3511 or later) on any hard disk or RAID volume slice. I actually still like the ability to easily swap out modules, even though the stupid things keep failing. I've been looking at some USB thumb drives that use both wear-leveling and single-level cells. They're about $30 online.

I'm working at the small business level and I could not put that kind of problems at my customers sites , even with UPS if for any reason the battery fail I will receive alot of calls just for a small power lost and this is not an option , I want to use commercial product exactly to prevent this , I have alot of Macintosh customers so the AFP part is really a thing that I need and the transition from OSX 10.4 to 10.5 stopped me from using it because of some incompatibility with netatalk used with Open-E , I tried to help the engineer at Open-E without success ( they don't care ), I don't need Open-E to made that kind of functionnality , put linux Debian 5.0 and you will have exactly the same things after some hours of config and you will have access to your system config file , and when the things will be broken no more waiting from support@open-e.com. This product just don't catch the whole thing of OpenSource and this is why Openfiler is probably an inferior product that create more interest , because when someting is broken you could repair it yourself and discuss with others about it . When you use OpenSource software to create commercial one you need to give the software and then you could sell the support to get it configured correctly , remembered the Open-E Free version saga? A dead horse

[budy]

Hold your horses… - I'd say. I am working as an admin in a midsized ads agency and we're running the complete Apple stack. I am using Open-E to provide my Xserves and Parallels VMs iSCSI devices that they then can share out (or do something else with them). Plus setting up volume replication with Open-E is as easy as ut can possibly get - try that with OpenFilerm where you will have to setup the drdb config on your own.

I checked CentOS, OpenFiler and FreeNAS and they all don't compete against Open-E, especially when it comes to speed and ease of use.
I myself wouldn't go for the USB thingy as well, but more due to the fact that my old Dell PE's and FSC Primergys won't boot from them and that the GUI tends to be so slow.
So I decided to go with Atlanta, which I simply installed on the local hard drives. The speed of the GUI is much snappier this way, and I never had a problem with the filesystem as well.

You can get the same performance out of Debian or any other Linux Distro, if you agree to get down and patch your kernel, thus enabeling the better performance modes of SCST, which is actually why Open-E is superior in speed in comparison with all ietd based solutions, which are of course easier to deploy.

I think that Open-E give you the most bang for the buck.

Just my 2c,
budy

[vkeven]

Hold your horses… - I'd say. I am working as an admin in a midsized ads agency and we're running the complete Apple stack. I am using Open-E to provide my Xserves and Parallels VMs iSCSI devices that they then can share out (or do something else with them). Plus setting up volume replication with Open-E is as easy as ut can possibly get - try that with OpenFilerm where you will have to setup the drdb config on your own.

I checked CentOS, OpenFiler and FreeNAS and they all don't compete against Open-E, especially when it comes to speed and ease of use.
I myself wouldn't go for the USB thingy as well, but more due to the fact that my old Dell PE's and FSC Primergys won't boot from them and that the GUI tends to be so slow.
So I decided to go with Atlanta, which I simply installed on the local hard drives. The speed of the GUI is much snappier this way, and I never had a problem with the filesystem as well.

You can get the same performance out of Debian or any other Linux Distro, if you agree to get down and patch your kernel, thus enabeling the better performance modes of SCST, which is actually why Open-E is superior in speed in comparison with all ietd based solutions, which are of course easier to deploy.

I think that Open-E give you the most bang for the buck.

Just my 2c,
budy

I'm talking about NAS part of the product with AFP protocol not ISCSI connect over virtual machine and share over it ,about ISCSI I know that only two ISCSI initiator exist for MAC OS X and one is Atto and the other is from studio network solutions and the last is not supported except if you used their SAN product so you're on your own ( or public forum ) if you crash and Atto Xtend is beta at best so forget ISCSI for Mac if you like your data.

I don't want a free product I want a working product with REAL individual support when
you need it like every commercial company in this world give you when you pay for it.
I installed last year a ISCSI SAN from Lefthand Networks with 9TB sync and async setup
in a Mac lab that cost over 50K , Open-E DSS was here during the first testing has an option but finally the product has not fit the bill because of a 4TB replication limit , this year a new project at the same customer site but this time for archiving purpose so I put back the Open-E option on the table and another time the product fail to deliver for both reliability and support.

[budy]

…eh no! I won't comment on that anymore. I have a feeling that this thread has moved far away from its topic.

I think it'd be better if you work with Todd on this, rather than having people argueing away and repeating their opinions.

Cheers,
budy

[To-M]

Ditto to that