"albatros66" wrote in message
m...

* Cost are not much different: varying from 12000 USD to 18000USD for
4TB subsystem ...

* familiarity of developers: I'm not developer. I'm "end user" ( not a
user at gray end 8-}). I don't need to care about

* features - most of the subsystem have almoust the same features -
the lists of features are long or very long: ten or more RAID modes,
flashilg lamps, SNMP, hot everything etc etc ...

Let's take your pick again: which SCSI/FIBRE-to-IDE/SATA array is best
from any point of view ??? Is anybody brave enough to answer the
question??? I have to answer to my boss because whe are just buying
few such devices (some 20TB) ...


Can you give any info on what applications you are going to be using the
storage for ? It's usually a big factor in choosing the right system.
I'm guessing you are looking at something to maybe do archiving if you're
looking at IDE based storage ?

What do you mean by "familiarity of developers" ?

Good to see you're after "flashing lights" as a buying factor ;-) Not
enough manufacturers are aware of this ... though Ciprico had a great
"Meg-O-Meter" on theirs :-)

One company I have a lot of respect for is DigiData
(http://www.digidata.com) they're not to huge so they have the time and
inclination to talk to you and help sort out any questions/problems you may
have and the RAID controllers they've made in the past have always been
horribly quick.

Regards

Mark