I hate Hitachi SANs. Nothing but latency issues. Now this may be our SAN team and the way they have it configured, but so far every vendor I talked to on latency issues gets very very very careful about configuration issues when talking about Hitachi SANs. It's not what they say, it's how careful they are to say what they say.
Steven On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 8:52 AM, Brian Desmond <[email protected]>wrote: > *One (IMO major) upside to a name brand option is that finding expertise > that knows how to manage it properly, troubleshoot, etc is going to be FAR > easier than the no name brands. * > > * * > > *Thanks,* > > *Brian Desmond* > > *[email protected]* > > * * > > *c – 312.731.3132* > > * * > > *From:* John Aldrich [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Wednesday, January 20, 2010 8:45 AM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* FYI -- Hitachi SMS100 > > > > Just spoke with the vendor and he is trying to answer some of the questions > that have come up regarding the SMS100. One question that I asked him was > expandability – how can you expand the storage on the SMS-100; that is, can > you add a JBOD or do you have to buy the whole package again, and > unfortunately, you have to buy the whole thing all over again, which is a > negative in my mind. That being said, if they are as inexpensive as he says, > for $5-6K you can get another SAN, which is not a bad price, but I am still > leaning towards the Silicon Mechanics option as you can add another tray of > disks to the box and go on from there. You would probably have to buy a > license upgrade for the Silicon Mechanics option I’m looking at, but it’s > pretty standard hardware and it’s a lot less expensive than the other > name-brand options. J > > > > [image: John-Aldrich][image: Tile-Tools] > > > > > > > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
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