John Doe wrote: > Yes, the Sun Fire Xs are costly... > Here, 35k euros for 48 x 1TB by example, or 22k for 48 x 500GB... > Our 12TB HP is around 6k. So 12k for almost the same as the 22k > But if you use 1TB disks on the Sun, you end up using half the Us (and save > some power) in your bay; which might be nice if you are tight on physical > space... > It all depends on your needs. > Note that I think the Sun Fire X uses software RAID (from zfs)... >
Yes, the Sun Fire X4540 uses software raid but not necessarily zfs...if you install another operating system that is not Solaris or OpenSolaris, it won't be zfs. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos