Just spoke with the vendor and he is trying to answer some of the questions that have come up regarding the SMS100. One question that I asked him was expandability - how can you expand the storage on the SMS-100; that is, can you add a JBOD or do you have to buy the whole package again, and unfortunately, you have to buy the whole thing all over again, which is a negative in my mind. That being said, if they are as inexpensive as he says, for $5-6K you can get another SAN, which is not a bad price, but I am still leaning towards the Silicon Mechanics option as you can add another tray of disks to the box and go on from there. You would probably have to buy a license upgrade for the Silicon Mechanics option I'm looking at, but it's pretty standard hardware and it's a lot less expensive than the other name-brand options. J
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