Hardware Recommendations for LTSP

[Ben Beeson]

Warren,

	I don't know much about high volume tape drives, and I don't know  if
the cost is worth the trade off or not, but have you considered a RAID array???
 Perhaps you could mirror (RAID one I think) two RAID 5 systems with a hot
spare for less money, or even approximately the same cost, but also not have to
do all the management of the archiving...  

	I also read an article in the Linux Journal where a university lab
built a backup gadget that used linux on an old computer to back up several
machines at night...    While this article specifically focuses on backing up 
Windoze boxen  over a LAN, the principle may be valid for your use as well. 
You may even get to skip the Samba stuff ;-)

The article can be found here:

http://interactive.linuxjournal.com/Magazines/LJ80/4360.html

If you can't get it, try to find the Dec 2000 issue, that's the other place to
find it...

Good Luck,

Ben 



On Tue, 08 May 2001, you wrote:
> I need to buy 10/100 ethernet switches, high capacity tape drives for the
> Linux Terminal Servers that I will be putting into several schools.  Any
> recommendations on these pieces of hardware?
> 
> For the switches I don't need any management features like disabling ports.
> I'm aware that the generics will probably flake out at high capacity, but
> thin client traffic should not go anywhere near those levels.
> 
> I've been looking at:
> 3Com 10/100 24port unmanaged about $600
> SMC 10/100 24port unmanaged about $170
> 
> For the tape drives a colleague of mine recommended 4mm DAT.  A quick glance
> at egghead.com showed these drives at $1,000+.  Anyone have any
> recommendations regarding this?  I need massive amounts of backup capacity.
> 
> Warren Togami
> warren at togami.com
> 
> 
> 
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