Storage example

We should step back and put together an example of how these pieces might fit together in a real life scenario. We cannot reasonably make examples for every common, let alone plausible, storage scenario but hopefully we can give a taste of what we are talking about in this chapter to make it all come together for you.

To keep things reasonably simple, I am going to work as generically as possible with the absolutely most common setup found in small and medium businesses. Or at least what probably should be the most common setup for them.

Smaller businesses generally benefit from keeping their designs quite simple. Lacking large, experienced staff and often at high risk from turnover, small businesses need systems that require less maintenance and those that can easily be maintained by consultants or staff that may not possess tribal knowledge of the environment.

For these kinds of environments, and also for many larger ones, hardware RAID with hot and blind...