Frank Cusack wrote:
On July 31, 2006 11:32:15 PM -0400 Torrey McMahon
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
You're comparing apples to a crate of apples. A more useful
comparison would be something along
the lines a single R0 LUN on a 3510 with controller to a single
3510-JBOD with ZFS across all the
drives.
I think the correct comparison is price/performance. Isn't thumper about
the same cost as a 3510-raid?
The correct comparison is done when all the factors are taken into
account. Making blanket statements like, "ZFS & JBODs are always ideal"
or "ZFS on top of a raid controller is a bad idea" or "SATA drives are
good enough" without taking into account the amount of data, access
patterns, numbers of hosts, price, performance, data retention policies,
audit requirements ... is where I take issue.
That said I'm afraid I'm not a sales person so I can't compare pricing
for you. A 3511 with some expansion trays might be a better comparison.
You could look at the sun.com prices but ... ehh ... those are list
price and we all know how that works, right? ;)
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