--- Jonathan E Brassow <jbrassow@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Oct 25, 2004, at 11:11 AM, Michael Gale wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > We are currently looking for a shared storage > solution and have been > > meeting with IBM about a SAN. All though a SAN is > nice I want to be > > able to offer a cheaper solution. > > > > I was looking at Apple's new Xserver RAID using > ATA drives and I was > > also reading up on GFS. I understand that neither > may offer the speed > > / performance of a SAN. > The Apple offering kind of sucks (but is cheap), no active/active and the drives are split, 7 drives per controller, they claim a lot of FC HBA/switches work, but I have heard otherwise. A better offering might be the Nexsan ATA boy: dual 2G FC controllers in Active/Active mode, several RAID levels, LUN masking, FC copper or fibre, SCSI or iSCSI, web based management, serial interface, etc. I have used this and have found very good performance for the cost. It does not have the "enterprise" quality features as a FASTt600 and perhaps not the same throughput, but is a very competent product and I would recommend it for many different type applications. Happy hunting.... Phy __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
