Re: [tlug] Any recommendations for cheap reliable external storage?

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

Christian Horn writes:
 > On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 04:20:20PM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

 > > I'm looking for external storage of 5-10 TB, USB or Ethernet IF

 > Sounds to me like
 > - 2 harddisks, connected via usb3 directly to the system
 > - A filesystem ontop, which is also supported by macosx,
 >   maybe ext3 or 4?
 > - Would mirroring instead of RAID be ok?
 >   On macosx, rsync should then be able to mirror between 2 mounted
 >   filesystems.
 >   On linux, something getting informed more directly about changes
 >   like inotify could be used for more efficiency

Thanks for the fast reply.  I'm looking for something a little more
plug and play than rsync mirroring; if it's going to be RAID, it has
to be on the drive side of the cable. :-)  Also, I'm specifically
interested in brand/model recommendations.  I won't necessarily go
with the exact thing recommended, but there's just too much junk out
there designed for people who record everything on TV, and strangely
enough the flyers I get from industrial vendors push compute hosts and
not storage.

I should also mention that the main use will be to store a MongoDB
database, so it's possible that RAID-style reliability will be
implemented as a replicated database (I have the hosts and addresses
to spare, I'm just going to run out of disk in the foreseeable
future).  That part is kind of up in the air as this is my first
experience with MongoDB.

Steve