We have several EQ arrays here, all SATA, and like the other two posters, enjoy good performance from them.
Some people will drag out the old adage about SATA drives not being as reliable as SAS or plain SCSI drives, but that has not been our experience with the EQ drives. ________________________________ From: N Parr [mailto:npar...@mortonind.com] Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2010 3:31 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Equallogic and Sata I've had a PS5000 for a little over a year and just added a PS6000. Both are running SATA drives. Unless you're going to be running highly IO intensive DB operations then there's no need to even think about anything other than SATA. I have our production and test SQL environments, 40 VM's (3 hosts), file shares and a few other things running on ours. Our SQL performance literally doubled when I moved the DB's from local SAS 15k Raid 10 array to my PS5000 configured with Raid 10. When we got our second array I reconfigured everything as raid 50 to get more space and performance stayed just the same. Actually it improved because it's virtual storage and adding a second physical array just added another 16 drives so now my data is spread across all 32 drives and 4 controllers. If you don't mind me asking what $ are they quoting you? ________________________________ From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2010 3:17 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Equallogic and Sata I run SATA on the PS5000. Two hosts, 8 VM's, exchange, SQL database, file sharing. On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Steve Ens <stevey...@gmail.com> wrote: Anyone have experience running the SATA option in the equallogic P4000 series? My vendor is quoting me the exact same price for SATA (16TB) as he is for 7.2TB of SAS. I'll be running snapshots, virtual machines and such off the SAN. Any experience with these models? My other option is the HP P4000 G2 series. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
