The most common solution to deal with "highly available" (meaning two host, one is ok to fail and the alive one takes the drives) storage appears to be using SAS drives with dual ports.
However, SAS is kind of dead? SAS SSDs cost a lot more than NVME, are slower than NVME and i cant even find simple enclosures.
Most big vendors want to sell you a subscription for their cluster management thing, which is just way out there in terms of pricing.
I considered doing a software solution like ceph, but software is painfully slow and really just too much hassle for something as trivial as a redundant file server in a single semi-professional rack.
What is everyone else doing? If its still SAS, what kind of enclosures are you using and what SSDs?
Are nvme switches a thing where you can access an nvme drive from multiple hosts?
Or is there a solution to share SATA drives? (dirt cheap)
However, SAS is kind of dead? SAS SSDs cost a lot more than NVME, are slower than NVME and i cant even find simple enclosures.
Most big vendors want to sell you a subscription for their cluster management thing, which is just way out there in terms of pricing.
I considered doing a software solution like ceph, but software is painfully slow and really just too much hassle for something as trivial as a redundant file server in a single semi-professional rack.
What is everyone else doing? If its still SAS, what kind of enclosures are you using and what SSDs?
Are nvme switches a thing where you can access an nvme drive from multiple hosts?
Or is there a solution to share SATA drives? (dirt cheap)