On Fri, Jul 03, 2015 at 08:26:31PM -0400, Richard Pieri wrote: > Last year I specced out some high-end compute servers (2 by Xeon 10-core, > 384GB) with a pile of storage (80TB) from Dell and IBM. The compute portions > were essentially identical prices. The Dell storage was 2 x 12-bay SAS > storage arrays with SATA (NL-SAS) drives; the IBM storage was 2 x 12-bay SAS > storage arrays with SAS drives. Both sets of storage arrays cost about the > same.
Out of curiosity did you compare with iXSystems? I have no association with them, only I sometimes watch the BSDNow podcast which they sponsor (and Kris Moore works for them doing PCBSD), so I often see their advertising. The show talks about freenas from time to time, e.g. episode 34. I'm curious how they compare when evaluated objectively, but I have no use for nas (or any new hardware) presently so would not take the time to compare myself. -- Mike Small sma...@sdf.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.org _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss