On Wed, 7 Jan 2009 16:34:33 -0500, "Eric E Eskam" <[email protected]> said:
> 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.)... There's also a new class of drives that EMC calls LC-FC for "low cost fiber channel". They are larger in size and 7200rpm. It appears that these drives are positioned by EMC to replace SATA for near-line and archival applications. RM ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
