Re: Cheap RAID system recommendation?

On Sun, 18 Aug 2002 19:46:49 +0200, 100.17706_at_germanynet.de wrote:
>Hello *.admin
>
>We are using a Sun's StorEdge A1000 in a Sun E3500 which happens to be
>extremely stow. Before we realized that it was so slow, we planned to
>buy a second one, but now we are looking for a different Raid system.
>...
>This is what we need:
>
>- sustained transfer rate > 70 MB/s (not on paper, but *measurable*)
>- fastest SCSI flavor available (fiber channel would be way to
>expensive)

The fastest scsi attach from sun (as far as I know) is the new D2 array, which might be better named the D2000. SCSI U160 , I believe.

>- no special features except a battery buffered cache

Thats a fairly major "special feature".
But as someone pointed out, you'd be better off just adding RAM to your server, and caching on the server.

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