I agree, that assuming that the F20 works well for your application, because its included in the Exadata 2, probably isn't logical.
Equally, assuming it doesn't work, isn't logical. Yes, the X-25E is clearly a competitor. It was once part of the Pillar Data Systems setup, and was disqualified based on reliability issues...in that sense, doesn't seem like a good competitor, but it is a competitior. I'm not here to promote the X-25E, however Sun does sell a rebadged X-25E in their own servers, and my particular salesman, spec'd both an X-25E based system, and an F20 based system....so they were clearly pitched against each other. As far as I'm assuming about Sun's .41ms benchmark methodology, really? am I sir? hardly. I start that as the basis of a discussion, because Sun published that number. Seemed logical. But I think we mostly agree, good idea to test. My intention was just to save anyone from disappointment, should they purchase without testing. I admit, I haven't posted here before, I registered precisely because google was showing this page as being a forum to discuss this card, and...just wanted to discuss it some. My apologies if I seemed too enthusiastic in my points, from the get go. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
