Re: Sun StorEdge 3310 array

From: Vikas Agnihotri (usenet_at_vikas.mailshell.com)
Date: 10/10/04

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    Rytis Sileika wrote:
    >> Yes! It works!

    Thats nice to know. I read that recent Sun storage products are a result
      of many alliances Sun has made with other lesser-known storage vendors
    and is just rebranding/marketing them under the Sun StorEdge name.

    Have these 3310s and 3510s (Workgroup storage) line been on the market
    for very long? What are their RAS, MTTR, etc numbers? What kind of disks
      do they use? How are the hardware RAID controllers? Are they any
    better than the old A1000 array which I have currently?

    >> With your needs, and the server you are using, try to afford the 3510
    >> instead. With the 3510 you get double the performance and mpxIO load-balancing/
    >> path failover capability.

    My only concern with the 3510 is that it has a FC and not SCSI
    interface. I dont have any experience with FC and SCSI just "feels" more
      comfortable and familiar. Has FC matured to the point of being used in
    mission criticial, large volume systems?

    >> When you grow the 3310 beyond one JBOD you loose host connections, and
    >> 'there can be only one' after that.

    Not sure what you mean by that? Can you please elaborate?

    > The only problem with 3510 is its price...
    > As for performance, it will not double for a single node, however for a
    > whole solution it would be better of course. What I mean is that with

    Well, I dont plan to connect more than one host to the the arrays. So
    this is not an issue.

    Isnt 740MB/sec a little on the slower side? Maybe I dont have my facts
    right, but is that the state of the art in storage technology these days?

    Thanks

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