On Sat, 20 Jan 2007, Erik Trimble wrote: > 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).
Yep; I know about those products. But the entry level 3120 (with 2 x 73GB disks) has a list price of $5K! I'm a Sun supporter, but those kind of prices are akin to daylight robbery! Or, to put it another way, the list price of that simple JBOD is more than twice as expensive as the X4100--a server it woulr probably be connected to! But more to the point, SAS seems to be future, so it would be really nice to have a Sun SAS JBOD array. As I said in my blog about this, if Sun could produce an 8-drive SAS 1U JBOD array, with a starting price (say, 2 x 36GB drives with 2 hot swapable PSUs) of $2K, they'd sell 'em by the truck load. I mean let's be honest: when we're talking about low end JBOD arrays, we're talking about one or two PSUs, some mechanism for holding the drives, a bit of electronics, and a metal case to put it all in. No expensive rocket science necessary. > 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) Yep, that's what I'm thinking of, only in a nice case that is similar to the X4100 (for economies of scale and pretty data centers). > 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.. But that's the point: Sun IS targeting Small Business: that's what the Sun Startup Essentials program is all about! Not to mention the programs aimed at developers. Agreed, Sun isn't targeting the mum and dad kind of business, but there are a huge number of businesses that need more storage than will fit into an X4200/T2000 but less than what's available with (say) the 3320. > of a hardware selection gap, than a pricing gap. The current "low end" of the > Sun line just isn't cheap enough. Couldn't agree more. -- Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc. Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URL: http://www.rite-group.com/rich _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
