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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