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Opinions on cheap FC RAID Heads
Dear all,
I'm currently looking for a (cheap) alternative to replace our current SAN. During my search I've found multiple (mostly 1U) raid heads and would like to hear your opinion on those product, errr I mean solutions. I'm especially interested in the products from infortrend, chaparral/dothill and JMR. From what I've seen these products look like 'miniature' SANs, at a much cheaper price. - Infortrend EonRAID 2510FS (cheapest I've seen, 12 total ports, dual controller offered for under EUR 14.000) - Chaparral RIO RAID 288 (I've found no price, 8 host and 4 disk ports, those are rebadged by Xyratex) - JMR Galeforce S-1021 (8 hosts and 4 disk channels, dual 1GB cache controllers @ EUR 26.000) I'd configure them to use an active/active setup, with two dual drive channels, with 5x 16 disk FC JBODs RAID10 for the databases and a single 16 disk SATA JBOD RAID5 for disk2disk backups. Our scaenario involves few DSS/DWH-DB servers, all of them Solaris or (possibly) Linux based. We've no need for fancy features (like replication over long distances, superfast snapshots, etc.) Has somebody got experience with the aforementioned (or similar) products? I'd be most happy to hear from you experience. Cheers, Jochen |
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