On 12/02 10:03 , Linda Kateley wrote:
> They can have multiple day downtime with no problem. They do no clustering.
> Academia is quite often this way..
> 
> If you wanted to build this more reliable, you could go sas with
> multipathing or even run multiple sata controllers and do manual import.. I
> usually recommend 2 head nodes and 2 paths to each storage chain.. But this
> still could be done under probably 150k.

ok. Thanks for the update!

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Carl Soderstrom
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