Rich Teer wrote:
On Fri, 19 Jan 2007, Frank Cusack wrote:
But x4100/x4200 only accept expensive 2.5" SAS drives, which have
small capacities. [...]
... and only 2 or 4 drives each. Hence my blog entry a while back,
wishing for a Sun-badged 1U SAS JBOD with room for 8 drives. I'm
amazed that Sun hasn't got a product to fill this obvious (to me
at least) hole in their storage catalogue.
The Sun 3120 does 4 x 3.5" SCSI drives in a 1U, and the Sun 3320 does 12
x 3.5" in 2U. Both come in JBOD configs (and the 3320 has HW Raid if you
want it).
Yes, I'm certain that having 8-10 SAS drives in a 1U might be useful; HP
thinks so: the MSA50
(http://h18004.www1.hp.com/storage/disk_storage/msa_diskarrays/drive_enclosures/ma50/index.html)
But, given that Sun doesn't seem to be really targeting Small Business
right now (at least, it appears that way), the 3120 works quite well,
feature-wise, for Medium Business/Enterprise areas..
I priced out the HP MSA-series vs the Sun StorageTek 3000-series, and
the HP stuff is definitely cheaper. By a noticable amount. So I'd say
Sun has less of a hardware selection gap, than a pricing gap. The
current "low end" of the Sun line just isn't cheap enough.
Of course the opinions expressed herein are my own, and I have no
special knowledge of anything relevant to this discussion. (TM)
:-)
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