Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2000 22:04:33 -0800 (PST) From: Roger Marquis <marquis@roble.com> To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Infortrend RAID / Extending FBSD filesystem? Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.1000109214018.16567B-100000@roble2.roble.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10001092059480.14799-100000@misery.sdf.com>
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> > 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
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