[NTLUG:Discuss] Disk performance.

[Jim Wildman]

Well, here is one solution.  I'm throwing this in here because I already
have it bookmarked for work..

http://store.sun.com/webconfig/BuildConfig.jhtml;$sessionid$N23JF0YAAARPLAMTA1ESQCT5AAAACJ1K

This is highend for Intel based stuff, but midlevel for the
Solaris/HP-UX market.

As a summary, 200-800G network storage device starting around $50K.

For that number of drives, I WOULD NOT recommend building your own.  To
get the performance out of the drives, you will probably need a
backplane SCSI bus, not a long ribbon cable, and you will need some
serious cooling activity.  Performance issues due to noisy cables and
heat problems are really tough to solve :-).

With the range of storage needs (50G to 600G), it would be nice to find
a family of disk arrays which will do, but that may not be possible.

Dell, Compaq, probably VA-Linux, and any number of hardware vendors can
provide conceptually similar devices.

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On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Steve Baker wrote:

> Jim Wildman wrote:
> >
> > For 100's of gigs, I would definitely look at scsi and maybe even an
> > external hardware raid cabinet.  This is not going to be cheap...
>
> Tell me the bad news.
>