check out software from wasabi systems, falconstor and datacore. They
might have something for you.

On 13 Jun 2005 14:30:31 -0700, "rookie" wrote:

>Hi Everyone,
>
>Is anyone aware of any good RAID software to set up an off shelf
>storage solution for around 2 -3 TB of space ( probably by stacking 10
>of the 250 GB hard drives set up at RAID level 5 ). I can use an Intel
>server board and a Intel RAID controller card but aint sure of how to
>manage this RAID after the Hardware setup.
>looking for help on the OS selection as well, as I need
>interoperatability with MAC and Windows!!
>
>Thnx .....
Just run your favorite LINUX distribution on it. (But make sure it is
2.6 kernel). The built-in md device driver performs quite nicely,
even in RAID5 ode as long as you aren't write intensive.

Interoperability with Mac & Windows is no problem as samba is built
in. Can't beat the price at $0.00 either and there are plenty of
books, classes, and websites that will go into configuration in
detail.

> >Thnx .....
> Just run your favorite LINUX distribution on it. (But make sure it is
> 2.6 kernel). The built-in md device driver performs quite nicely,
> even in RAID5 ode as long as you aren't write intensive.
>
> Interoperability with Mac & Windows is no problem as samba is built
> in. Can't beat the price at $0.00 either and there are plenty of
> books, classes, and websites that will go into configuration in
> detail.

Samba on Linux as suggested above works if you want NFS access to data.
If you want SCSI block access to data, then you are looking for
software that exports a SCSI target/LUN - something SAMBA does not do.