We are pricing out a modest storage system too. We are looking at using Areca (http://www.areca.com.tw/products/pcie341.htm). 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.
Regards, John On 10/5/07, andrew holway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I just did a quote for 10TB storage. > > 3Ware Escalade 9650SE + battery backup (16 port) > 12 x Hitachi 1TB Enterprise SATAII in raid 6 > 2 x Intel Xeon Woodcrest 5160 - 3GHz > 8 x 2048MB DDRII-667 > > All for £6,886.00 > > Which I realise would buy a small house in the USA at the moment :) > > Ta > > Andy > > > > On 05/10/2007, Leif Nixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Mark Hahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > >> Actually Mark..I just did an HP DL320 (the system I believe you were > > >> talking about) with 9TB (12x750 SATA) for a client for under $8K. > > >> This include $400 or so for three years of on site services, before > > >> requesting any additional (special) discount. So your $11K estimate > > >> is more than a bit high. > > > > > > well, it was 14 disks (it's a model that mounts two more disks in the > back), > > > and the price came straight off HP's website... (I may have included > an IB > > > card, too.) > > > > > > if anyone from HP is listening, a model with two quad-core-capable > > > sockets would be a good move. think of it as the perfect map-reduce > > > brick ;) > > > > I'd prefer they put their effort into supplying a raid controller that > > can actually detect corrupt raid sets. (cf. the recent thread "Big > storage") > > > > -- > > Leif Nixon - Systems expert > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > National Supercomputer Centre - Linkoping University > > ----------------------------------------------------------- >
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