[GRLUG] Enterprise hard drives

[Casey DuBois]

Speaking of the (real) hardware solution I have 3-pcs of the following
if anyone has interest: Infortrend EonStor A16F-G1A2, FC-to-SATA RAID
Subsystem each configured with: 16-Bays (Trays included but NO Drives),
3U rack space, Two 2Gbps Fibre Host Channels, Single Controller, 512MB
Cache RAM

I have been selling for $1,750 on eBay but would offer for local pick-up
@ $1,650, we are running 4 of these in our datacenter with 250GB drives
but most of the 15-units I have sold are running 500GB or greater drives
(Western Digital WD500YS and Maxtor Maxline Pro 7H500FO seem to be the
best fit for these - Seagate not working).

Sincerely,
 
Casey M. DuBois
N-VINT, Inc.
616-656-5500 Office
866-337-2686 Direct
AOL IM: CaseyNVINT
cdubois at n-vint.com
 
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-----Original Message-----
From: David Pembrook [mailto:david at pembrook.net] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 1:42 PM
To: grlug at grlug.org
Subject: Re: [GRLUG] Enterprise hard drives

Take a look at them... With the exception of the WD Raptor's (pricey) 
they have good warranties and a good price/performance ratio. Its not an

article on SCSI but rather ATA and SATA drives.

I'd still go with the (real) hardware solution anyhow if doing more than

mirroring.

Dave

Tim Schmidt wrote:
> On 4/4/07, Bob Kline <bob.kline at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>>
http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/04/02/the_best_in_enterprise_hard_drive
s/index.html
>>
>> Nice article about the high price spread.
>>     
>
> I have yet to find an advantage in buying more expensive drives that
> cannot be had with more, cheaper, roomier commodity drives and
> software raid.
>
> --tim
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