Classification: UNCLASSIFIED > Would you want an enclosure with SCSI drives or SATA drives? how much money you got? Unless you are running a fortune 1000 or better operation SATA should more than cut it. > the 7200 3Gb drives for maximum performance? define "maximum". With a RAID controller that doesn't stink and enough spindles the 300GB drives should be quite sufficient. depends on how much $ you have. You don't have to have an external storage chassis. You can convert that GNBD server to an iscsi head just with some software. -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster