Here's my situation:
My employer has recently taken delivery of an airborne LIDAR system that, at full spread, produces over a terabyte of data per day of flying. We'll be taking delivery of an add-on to it in a month or two that produces an additional terabyte of data per day. That's ~2TB for every day that we're in the field. A typical field campaign is about 5 days.
The data comes out of the system on a series of ordinary SATA SSDs. I need to build a computer that can copy the data off of them, and onto a set of large spinning disks so that:
1. We need to have at least two copies of the data - one working copy, and one backup.
2. It is enormously preferable that those two copies be two huge ~12 TB volumes, as opposed to say, four 3TB disks. (We need to automate some of the process of moving the data around, and that becomes much more difficult if the target is more than one disk)
My question is, can anyone recommend either a single RAID controller that will handle ten disks (two arrays of 5 3TB disks, RAID 5) or a model that can peacefully coexist with an identical one? (Two controllers, each with a single array of 5 3TB disks, RAID )
Also, if this needed to be semi-portable, can anyone recommend a case?
My employer has recently taken delivery of an airborne LIDAR system that, at full spread, produces over a terabyte of data per day of flying. We'll be taking delivery of an add-on to it in a month or two that produces an additional terabyte of data per day. That's ~2TB for every day that we're in the field. A typical field campaign is about 5 days.
The data comes out of the system on a series of ordinary SATA SSDs. I need to build a computer that can copy the data off of them, and onto a set of large spinning disks so that:
1. We need to have at least two copies of the data - one working copy, and one backup.
2. It is enormously preferable that those two copies be two huge ~12 TB volumes, as opposed to say, four 3TB disks. (We need to automate some of the process of moving the data around, and that becomes much more difficult if the target is more than one disk)
My question is, can anyone recommend either a single RAID controller that will handle ten disks (two arrays of 5 3TB disks, RAID 5) or a model that can peacefully coexist with an identical one? (Two controllers, each with a single array of 5 3TB disks, RAID )
Also, if this needed to be semi-portable, can anyone recommend a case?