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To: Roger Marquis <marquis@roble.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 22:04:33 PST."
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Roger Marquis wrote in message ID
<Pine.GSO.3.96.1000109214018.16567B-100000@roble2.roble.com>:
> 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?

How hot do they run, out of curiosity?

> I installed one of these on an E4500 a few months ago
> with Oracle, Veritas' FastIO, near-line backups, hot-swap and redundant

ITYM QuickIO

> 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.

Depends how big your cabinets are, and what size drives you are using.
With 18gig drives, the MetaStor S series comes in at just under
2TB/rack


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