One (IMO major) upside to a name brand option is that finding expertise that knows how to manage it properly, troubleshoot, etc is going to be FAR easier than the no name brands.
Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com<mailto:br...@briandesmond.com> c - 312.731.3132 From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 8:45 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: FYI -- Hitachi SMS100 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. :) [John-Aldrich][Tile-Tools] ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
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