Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 15:43:25 -0500 From: "Gary Palmer" <gjp@in-addr.com> To: Tom <tom@sdf.com> Cc: Roger Marquis <marquis@roble.com>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Infortrend RAID / Extending FBSD filesystem? Message-ID: <77019.948055405@noop.colo.erols.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 09 Jan 2000 21:06:34 PST." <Pine.BSF.4.05.10001092059480.14799-100000@misery.sdf.com>
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Tom wrote in message ID <Pine.BSF.4.05.10001092059480.14799-100000@misery.sdf.com>: > > 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). The storage density on the A5200 has yet to be beaten AFAIK. Its a fairly impressive unit. But you always pay extra for the purple paint and the Sun logo, as much as 50%-100% over what you can get the product for elsewhere (e.g. the A1000, D1000 and A3500 all use equipment/software written by MetaStor, and you can get similar or equivalent stuff a lot cheaper from MetaStor. MetaStor even has a fiberchannel RAID solution that Sun isn't shipping yet, and will be coming out with a pure fiberchannel RAID early this year). Pity we'll probably never see the DMP stuff supported in FreeBSD. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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