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To: Tom <tom@sdf.com>
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From: "Gary Palmer" <gjp@in-addr.com>
Subject: Re: Infortrend RAID / Extending FBSD filesystem? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 09 Jan 2000 21:06:34 PST."
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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.


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