It's not exactly OT, but you should have changed the subject line :) On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 01:08:22PM +0800, Barry Dexter A. Gonzaga wrote: > > (e.g. the Qlogic QLA2x00 series of Fibre Channel host bus adapters) > Where did you source this? I am looking at Qlogic Fibre Channel > HBA's as these are the only adapters supported in *BSD. >
They came along with IBM xSeries boxes along and are used with a FastT200 SAN array and fabric switch, also made by IBM. Our client purchased them from Unison Computer Systems, which is incidentally one of our business partners. :) > We are currently evaluating IDE Raid boxes with either > SCSI/Fibre Channel uplinks. Performance-wise IDE RAID loses against FibreChannel hands down. You can get multi-gigabit data rates with FibreChannel, and you'd be lucky to get even a quarter of that with present IDE technology. However, the setup our client had us make was extremely expensive, with the fabric switch costing a few million bucks, more than twice the price of the two quad-processor xSeries boxes with ServeRAID, and the disk array, at only 200GB :( costing only a little less than that. -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
