Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 20:43:06 -0800 (PST) From: Tom <tom@sdf.com> To: Roger Marquis <marquis@roble.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Infortrend RAID / Extending FBSD filesystem? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10001112034490.14799-100000@misery.sdf.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.1000109214018.16567B-100000@roble2.roble.com>
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On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Roger Marquis wrote: > > > Much as I like FreeBSD, Sun is the way to go for large disk farms. > > > > Perhaps for the server itself, but Sun storage arrays seem very > > overpriced (ie A5000 series). > > Overpriced compared to what, EMC, NetApp, Auspex? Where else can you > get a quad FC-AL attached array the size of a PC with 22 10Krpm dual > ported drives? I installed one of these on an E4500 a few months ago > with Oracle, Veritas' FastIO, near-line backups, hot-swap and redundant > everything. The 200MB/s throughput is also hard to beat. Well, you are comparing apples and orages here. A A5000 is an FC-AL array. NetApp and Auspex sell file server appliances, that happen to include arrays, that may or may not use FC-AL. DEC makes numerous different kinds of FC-AL arrays for instance. DPT (not made by DPT) has a nice little low profile FC-AL shelf. The DPT one is interesting, because it is same backend FC-AL shelf that NetApp uses with many of their filers. > I don't know of a better Unix solution at any price for 2+TB per > cabinet that can be separated from it's servers and mirrors by several > kilometers of fiber. Yes, but all FC-AL arrays can do that. > Not cheap to be sure but cheaper than trying to manage a bunch of > stand-alone/NFS fileservers. > -- > Roger Marquis > Roble Systems Consulting > http://www.roble.com/ Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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