what do you think 30,45 or 60 driver server

[intertan]

found this the other day

http://www.45drives.com/products/storage/

 

starting to wonder if running 2 unraid servers on one board might be a good idea

[garycase]

These are really a different class of product.  If you want this much storage in a single POD you're better off to run a single RAID-6 than to try and configure it with 2 UnRAID servers in the same box.

 

But if you did want to do that, you'd have to use 2 separate 24-port RAID controllers (so you could pass each through to a VM); and set up two separate UnRAID VM's ... passing one controller through to each VM.

 

Running a pair of UnRAID VM's under ESXi should work just fine.  But by the time you configure this and buy two 24-port RAID cards to provide the ports you need, it'd likely be both more efficient and less expensive to build 2 independent 24 drive systems.

 

 

[Helmonder]

Also you increase risk of data loss.. The enclosure is so expensive that is cheaper AND more safe to have two servers.. The only reason I can imagine is that you do not have the space for two...

[ysss]

With that much data and just one or two 2gigs ethernet port to push em out... (not to mention the number of real users at the location), I wonder if it's more reasonable and economical to implement a snapshot-type raid like flexraid or snapraid, than an always-online system like unraid.