On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 12:14:20PM -0700, Richard Elling - PAE wrote:
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This is the case where I don't understand Sun's politics at all: Sun
doesn't offer really cheap JBOD which can be bought just for ZFS. And
don't even tell me about 3310/3320 JBODs - they are horrible
On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 09:41:58AM +0100, Darren J Moffat wrote:
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Richard, when I talk about cheap JBOD I think about home users/small
servers/small companies. I guess you can sell 100 X4500 and at the same
time 1000 (or even more) cheap JBODs to the small companies
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I don't quite see this in my crystal ball. Rather, I see all of the SAS/SATA
chipset vendors putting RAID in the chipset. Basically, you can't get a
dumb interface anymore, except for fibre channel :-). In other words, if
we were to design a system in a chassis with
On Sep 8, 2006, at 9:33, Richard Elling - PAE wrote:
I was looking for a new AM2 socket motherboard a few weeks ago. All
of the ones
I looked at had 2xIDE and 4xSATA with onboard (SATA) RAID. All were
less than $150.
In other words, the days of having a JBOD-only solution are over
except for
Ed Gould wrote:
On Sep 8, 2006, at 9:33, Richard Elling - PAE wrote:
I was looking for a new AM2 socket motherboard a few weeks ago. All
of the ones
I looked at had 2xIDE and 4xSATA with onboard (SATA) RAID. All were
less than $150.
In other words, the days of having a JBOD-only solution are
Dunno about eSATA jbods, but eSATA host ports have
appeared on at least two HDTV-capable DVRs for storage
expansion (looks like one model of the Scientific Atlanta
cable box DVR's as well as on the shipping-any-day-now
Tivo Series 3).
It's strange that they didn't go with firewire since
Ed Gould wrote:
On Sep 8, 2006, at 11:35, Torrey McMahon wrote:
If I read between the lines here I think you're saying that the raid
functionality is in the chipset but the management can only be done by
software running on the outside. (Right?)
No. All that's in the chipset is enough to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is the case where I don't understand Sun's politics at all: Sun
doesn't offer really cheap JBOD which can be bought just for ZFS. And
don't even tell me about 3310/3320 JBODs - they are horrible expansive :-(
Yep, multipacks are EOL for some time now -- killed by
