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On Jul 16, 2006, at 11:31 , Matthew Jacob wrote:
> I'm trying to get the 2422 support complete.

Oh, cool.  Drop me a note when you're ready, and I should be able to  
poke around in my budgets somewhere for some test gear.

> Wait a year. SAS/SATA will blow both away for nearline.

Maybe, I'm not so sure.  Certainly in terms of throughput, SAS/SATA  
are relatively close to their SCSI/FCAL counterparts, but I have a  
number of systems where the throughput is pretty small, but the IO  
operations/second are (very) high.  The SATA drives I've tried in  
that role have failed miserably compared to their SCSI brethren.

-aDe