"RM" <[email protected]> wrote on 01/05/2009 10:58:42 AM:
> Seconded. Mgmt is hellbent on EMC. The storage (for tier 1) > is over $10k/TB when you include the shelf and whatever else is needed. > On the other hand, there are nice little 2U and 3U SAN's from > companies like IBM which use SAS disk that mere mortals can > afford. Less than $2k/TB for SAS and way less for SATA. Like I told David, don't discount SATA. Equallogic used to be pretty liberal on their loaners - not sure if they still are from Dell, but it can't hurt to ask if you can get a loaner for a week to do some testing on. I think you will be pleasantly surprised. And as you add more shelves, it gets faster (more spindles, more cache, another controller, 3 more gig-e ports for I/O, etc.)... Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government "The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it." - P. B. Medawar ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
