Hardware RAID Level & Performance

[Kevin P. Fleming]

Andrew Morgan wrote:

> You may want to look into Dell's AX100 SAN (a rebranded version of the 
> EMC Clariion AX100).  These use SATA drives with a FC front end.  They 
> are relatively inexpensive for the amount of storage you can get, if 
> your I/O needs match.  You can also go a little more upscale with the 
> CX300/500/700 models which support a mix of FC and SATA hard drives and 
> offer greater expandability.

Even better, they just released the AX100i, which uses iSCSI for the 
host interface. The array units are about the same price, but 
connectivity for 6-8 hosts is far, far cheaper than FC.
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