<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 1:55 AM, GZ <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gzornetzer.lists@gmail.com" target="_blank">gzornetzer.lists@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>Hi all,<br></div><br></div></div></div>
</div></div></div></div></div>Any advice or thoughts are welcomed.<br>Thanks very much,<br></div>-Greg<br><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'm running a virtualized backend on a $300 Dell Poweredge I bought on ebay. My tuners are external and I haven't had any issues specific to the fact that it's a VM. What's really nice is that when it's time for a major upgrade, I can run a snapshot ahead of time in case the upgrade causes an issue - This saved my butt going from 10.04 to 12.10 a while back (Keep in mind I am an idiot when it comes to Linux).<br>
<br>My storage is an XServe RAID connected by fiber and not really applicable to your scenario. I will say that once you go over 2TB disks, your chances of having a URE (Unrecoverable Read Error) during a rebuild increase substantially. I'm a sys admin and over the past 19 years, I've seen three RAID5 rebuilds fail. Two of them were in the past year. Here's a very precient article back from 2007 that really illustrates the point: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/blog/storage/why-raid-5-stops-working-in-2009/162">http://www.zdnet.com/blog/storage/why-raid-5-stops-working-in-2009/162</a>.<br>
<br></div><div>I myself have been looking for a while for some kind of external enclosure to hook to my PowerEdge, but fiber to nearline SATA drive enclosures are just insanely expensive. I'm leaning towards (sorry in advance guys) a Windows Server 2012 box running as an iSCSI target. But I haven't totally decided just yet.<br>
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