Andy Lubel wrote: > On 9/20/07 3:49 PM, "Paul B. Henson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> On Thu, 20 Sep 2007, Richard Elling wrote: >> >> >> That would also be my preference, but if I were forced to use hardware >> RAID, the additional loss of storage for ZFS redundancy would be painful. >> >> Would anyone happen to have any good recommendations for an enterprise >> scale storage subsystem suitable for ZFS deployment? If I recall correctly, >> the SE we spoke with recommended the StorageTek 6140 in a hardware raid >> configuration, and evidently mistakenly claimed that Cluster would not work >> with JBOD. >> > > I really have to disagree, we have 6120 and 6130's and if I had the option > to actually plan out some storage I would have just bought a thumper. You > could probably buy 2 for the cost of that 6140. >
We are in a similar situation. It turns out that buying two thumpers is cheaper per TB than buying more shelves for an IBM N7600. I don't know about power/cooling considerations yet though. _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
