recommendations on storage, fairly low-end

- RAID 1 with fairly ordinary (7200RPM) SATA drives has been working fine performance-wise (helped by the battery-backed cache on the RAID controller) and it will continue to be fine for the growth we expect.

- The RAID card's driver bugs & battery conditioning glitches have been problematic though, and we need to bump storage from 2TB total to 3TB total, and the RAID card does not support that.

- Server is Mac OS X, which limits some choices because of drivers... But I'll take all suggestions and filter them as needed to find something that I can use here.

- Obviously, experience regarding particular brands of RAID cards is appreciated.

- Also, external RAID boxes with eSATA connections could be considered.

- There is the possibility of iSCSI to some managed enterprise storage, but here I would want to know about write order & sync issues--what questions to ask regarding this and/or what brands/buzzwords to look for.

Any and all advice and links appreciated ;-)

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Scott Ribe
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