Recommendations for NAS?

Hi,

I am looking for a NAS solution.

Has anyone had experience with Hitachi WMS100 or AMS200s?

http://www.hds.com/products_services...dular_storage/

Thanks,

Todd

"HVB" wrote in message
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On 24 Mar 2006 13:03:27 -0800, "ttblum" wrote:

I am looking for a NAS solution.

Has anyone had experience with Hitachi WMS100 or AMS200s?

Ummm... you know that these aren't NAS devices, right?

If you'd like to tell us what you're trying to do, someone will
probably be able to point you in the right direction.

HVB.

Uhmmm.. You know that HDS recently introduced NAS modules for their AMS/WMS
gear, right? CIFS and NFS for now, iSCSI appearently later in the year..

Rob

Thanks for the responses everyone.

Do you know if the HDS products perform as poorly as SAN devices? We
are looking for a SAN device for our data center. Sorry for the
confusion about NAS.

Thanks,

Todd

"ttblum" wrote in message
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Thanks for the responses everyone.

Do you know if the HDS products perform as poorly as SAN devices? We
are looking for a SAN device for our data center. Sorry for the
confusion about NAS.

Thanks,

Todd

HDS is right up there with IBM and EMC for SAN's. Great performance and very
reliable. For a good advice you'll need to specify what you expect from
them. How many servers will be accessing the system and what type of
applications and performance do you expect? 5 file servers with home
directories have completely different requirements then 50 big-a** database
servers Do you need off-site replication? Dual-path fail-over? Mainframe
support? Tell us more..

Rob

If you want an enterprise class NAS server, choose the NetApps products.
They are heads above the competition. Equallogics rocks for iSCSI, EMC for
SAN, HP for Virtualization in SAN. In my opinion, these are the best
solutions in these areas. Certainly there are other manufacturues that play
in each area that are very good as well, but in my 15+ years experience, you
can't go wrong with the above recommendations.

Regards
"HVB" wrote in message
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On 27 Mar 2006 12:30:57 -0800, "ttblum" wrote:

Do you know if the HDS products perform as poorly as SAN devices? We
are looking for a SAN device for our data center.

IME, HDS arrays tend to perform very well. The Japanese engineers
take performance very seriously. Having said that, the results you
see will depend on what configuration you have and that depends on
what you want to do with it.

As Rob said, HDS are right up there with EMC and IBM, certainly
top-tier.

HVB