22 Sep
2004
22 Sep
'04
3:19 p.m.
We make them, and our customers use them. 14 drive
building
blocks, which combine into groups for bigger configurations
(more space, more speed). 4 unit groups (16 TB) are common.
We have run internal tests quite a lot larger than that.
Cool! Thank you, Paul!!!
Some people would like you to believe that iSCSI and
SATA are
only for the low end. Don't believe them, it's not true.
We give Service Level Agreements to our customers, and so I for one don't
really care about what's considered low-end or high-end. I care about what
woks in my environment and doesn't make me drive to the facility at 2am (and
stay until the following 2am). We've got some of the so-called "high-end"
gear, and it's not that reliable, expensive to keep on maintenance, and the
manufacturer is unpleasant to deal with (they'll kill themselves to sell you
a unit, but the post-sales support experience is completely different).
Of course, the fact that I can get an SATA drive at my local CompUSA, where
they don't sell anything SCSI, let alone SCA, is an attractive notion.
Thanks for the tip/info!
Patrick