From owner-freebsd-isp Sun Jan 9 22: 4:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from roble.com (roble.com [206.40.34.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BAF414C85 for ; Sun, 9 Jan 2000 22:04:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sendmail@roble.com) Received: from roble2.roble.com (roble2.roble.com [206.40.34.52]) by roble.com (Roble1b) with SMTP id WAA17077 for ; Sun, 9 Jan 2000 22:04:40 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2000 22:04:33 -0800 (PST) From: Roger Marquis To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Infortrend RAID / Extending FBSD filesystem? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > 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. 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. 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/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message