We are pricing out a modest storage system too. We are looking at using Areca (<a href="http://www.areca.com.tw/products/pcie341.htm">http://www.areca.com.tw/products/pcie341.htm</a>). Their new Intel 800MHz IOP341 I/O processor based RAID cards with 2GB cache look impressive. Anyone have experience with these? Seems 3Ware are more popular on this list.
<br><br>Regards,<br>John<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/5/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">andrew holway</b> <<a href="mailto:andrew@moonet.co.uk">andrew@moonet.co.uk</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I just did a quote for 10TB storage.<br><br>3Ware Escalade 9650SE + battery backup (16 port)<br>12 x Hitachi 1TB Enterprise SATAII in raid 6<br>2 x Intel Xeon Woodcrest 5160 - 3GHz<br>8 x 2048MB DDRII-667<br><br>All for £6,
886.00<br><br>Which I realise would buy a small house in the USA at the moment :)<br><br>Ta<br><br>Andy<br><br><br><br>On 05/10/2007, Leif Nixon <<a href="mailto:nixon@nsc.liu.se">nixon@nsc.liu.se</a>> wrote:<br>> Mark Hahn <
<a href="mailto:hahn@mcmaster.ca">hahn@mcmaster.ca</a>> writes:<br>><br>> >> Actually Mark..I just did an HP DL320 (the system I believe you were<br>> >> talking about) with 9TB (12x750 SATA) for a client for under $8K.
<br>> >> This include $400 or so for three years of on site services, before<br>> >> requesting any additional (special) discount. So your $11K estimate<br>> >> is more than a bit high.<br>> >
<br>> > well, it was 14 disks (it's a model that mounts two more disks in the back),<br>> > and the price came straight off HP's website... (I may have included an IB<br>> > card, too.)<br>> >
<br>> > if anyone from HP is listening, a model with two quad-core-capable<br>> > sockets would be a good move. think of it as the perfect map-reduce<br>> > brick ;)<br>><br>> I'd prefer they put their effort into supplying a raid controller that
<br>> can actually detect corrupt raid sets. (cf. the recent thread "Big storage")<br>><br>> --<br>> Leif Nixon - Systems expert<br>> ------------------------------------------------------------
<br>> National Supercomputer Centre - Linkoping University<br>> -----------------------------------------------------------<br></blockquote></div><br>
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