ewilts AT ewilts DOT org said:
> You could go with something like a Windows or Linux server with locally
> attached disk.  Not ideal, but it's archive data, right? 

Or OpenSolaris running on an x86 server with locally attached JBOD,
using ZFS for RAID and volume management.  Snapshots and conventional
compression are builtin to ZFS, and recent versions have deduplication
(if you're careful to spec out enough RAM and SSD cache).

The OpenSolaris builtin COMSTAR software provides iSCSI and FC targets
hosted on ZFS-based storage.

You can build this yourself, buy it from Oracle (this is their
"Unified Storage" product), or check out Nexenta's distribution.

Regards,

Marion


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