Re: [Q]: StorEdge D1000


ChrisQuayle wrote:
gerryt wrote:
Kosta Xonis wrote:

gerryt schrieb:

Kosta Xonis wrote:

I Have a few questions related to the StorEdge D1000.
1) Can I hook it to a "stock" Ultra80/Blade1000 or does
it have an incompatible SCSI variant on its host side ?

It is incompatible..At least on a Blade 1000
You'll need to get an adapter. GoTo:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/Systems/D1000/components.html
Look under SCSI for example part numbers

Done, as advised, and shocked seeing what expenses I have to make in
addition to what I thought before... :-( (The price of progress)


You may have luck with eBay. For sure SBUS cards are pfennigs each
but PCI a bit more : >

4) Could I use discs of that kind (example) Fujitsu MAW3147NC
oder Fujitsu MAW3300NC, provided I have the SPUDs...

Any SCA drive with correct form factor should "work"
I prefer to use Sun branded disks. They are usually cheap on eBay

Yes, they are, but VERY rare in the desired capacity. So I have to buy
brand new ones. Branded ones would be a fortune to spend, so I have to
get OEM. (The above mentioned ones are at 227 EUR for the 146GB, and 480
for the 300GB drives. I have no SUN figures for these capacities)


Any SCA SCSI drive at that capacity is too expensive IMO but there it
is..
Even at the local cheapo PeeCee shoppe
I have 2 A5000's - forget about populating them with Sun 146 GBs when a
500GB SATA drive is so cheap and probaby faster than 22 striped
disks in an A5000 : < They were a gift though - cant complain!
But I also cant "upgrade"


Anyways, that was helpfull, thanks a lot gerryt!!


Sure - I have a D1000. Nice for heating the living room : >


Well, not anything like as bad as an A5100. Bought one recently on Ebay
for a pittance (1 ukp) and have been filling with 73gb seagates. Fully
loaded with 14 drives, it's an eyewatering 5 or 6 hundred watts and 2 or
3 hundred empty. Too expensive to keep online all the time, but bought
for archiving only and will be powered up as needed. Fc drives are very
good value and you can get single and multidrive adapters / backplanes
to 9 pin fibre over copper for a few $10's. hba's are cheap as well.
There's someone on Ebay US selling fc adapter cards. Can't say how good
they are, but will be trying one of his single drive adapters soon for
drive bench testing work. Ebay id is corpsys, fwiw.

Drifting off topic arent we? : >
I have 2 A5000s populated with 44 9 GB 10k RPM Seagates
so I know what you mean.
My D1000 came with one of my E4500s so thats 44+12 disks+10CPUs
3 HBAs, Silkworm FC/AL switch, etc etc when I fire the thing up... So I
know a little bit about how to heat a living room. I use 3 15A circuits
to power up this stuff.
And gee it sounds like a... CO in there. Not too often obviously.
Last time I checked eBay populating the A5000s with Sun 146GB Sun
branded
disks was WAY too much $$ to consider esp. when you need 45 or so.
But the OP could get 1 or 2 SCA SCSIs at a time off eBay - with luck
cheaply..

.

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