[ale] NAS suggestions

[brian at polibyte.com (Brian Pitts)]

Robert L. Harris wrote:
> I need a solid NAS solution that'll give 3-5 TB without costing 50K.
> I've been using
> a CoRAID solution I really liked but when doing an "mkfs" on a drive
> this morning
> it threw a bad block.  As a result of dealing with the bad IO the NFS
> effectively
> stopped and the whole NAS basically stopped responding to NFS traffic
which
> killed my ESX servers.
>

That doesn't sound fun.

Trying to make sure I understand the entire picture: You have a coRaid
box exporting disks using ata-over-ethernet to another box (the NAS)
that runs NFS and exports files to multiple boxes running ESX?

-Brian