On Thu, 20 Sep 2007, Tim Spriggs wrote: > 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.
It's really a completely different class of storage though, right? I don't know offhand what an IBM N7600 is, but presumably some type of SAN device? Which can be connected simultaneously to multiple servers for clustering? An x4500 looks great if you only want a bunch of storage with the reliability/availability provided by a relatively fault-tolerant server. But if you want to be able to withstand server failure, or continue to provide service while having one server down for maintenance/patching, it doesn't seem appropriate. -- Paul B. Henson | (909) 979-6361 | http://www.csupomona.edu/~henson/ Operating Systems and Network Analyst | [EMAIL PROTECTED] California State Polytechnic University | Pomona CA 91768 _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
