26 Nov
2012
26 Nov
'12
4:43 a.m.
On 26/11/2012, at 10:41 PM, Adrian Graham <binarydinosaurs at gmail.com> wrote:
It's repackaged SmartArray version 5 hardware from the Proliant range,
essentially a 5304 array controller. All Compaq designed hardware
right down to the midplane, and even shares the cache battery module
from the 5300/6300 controllers.
I can definitely confirm it's a pre-merger Compaq design - I had a very boozy dinner
with a couple of the Compaq Storage team in Sydney in 2000 where we talked about it in
some detail. At that stage I was working for Compaq supporting an OpenVMS customer who
were planning to use them (and eventually did). A few years later (about 12) and I'm
now working there but we have moved on from MSA-1000s!
Huw Davies | e-mail: Huw.Davies at kerberos.davies.net.au
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