On January 24, 2007 9:40:41 AM -0800 Richard Elling
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Peter Eriksson wrote:
Yes please. Now give me a fairly cheap (but still quality) FC-attached
JBOD utilizing SATA/SAS disks and I'll be really happy! :-)
... with write cache and dual redundant controllers? I think we call that
the Sun StorageTek 3511.
Ah but the 3511 JBOD is not supported for direct attach to a host, nor is it
supported for attachment to a SAN. You have to have a 3510 or 3511 with
RAID controller to use the 3511 JBOD. The RAID controller is pretty pricey
on these guys. $5k each IIRC.
On January 24, 2007 10:04:04 AM -0800 Bryan Cantrill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 09:46:11AM -0800, Moazam Raja wrote:
Well, he did say fairly cheap. the ST 3511 is about $18.5k. That's
about the same price for the low-end NetApp FAS250 unit.
Note that the 3511 is being replaced with the 6140:
Which is MUCH nicer but also much pricier. Also, no non-RAID option.
You can get a 4Gb FC->SATA RAID with 12*750gb drives for about $10k
from third parties. I doubt we'll ever see that from Sun if for no
other reason just due to the drive markups. (Which might be justified
based on drive qualification; I'm not making any comment as to whether
the markup is warranted or not, just that it exists and is obscene.)
But you still can't beat thumper overall. I believe S10U3 has iSCSI
target support? If so, there you go. Not on the low end in absolute
$$$ but certainly in $/GB per bits/sec. Probably better on power too
compared to equivalent solutions.
-frank
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