[Gllug] Hitachi SMS-100

[John Hearns]

On 26 March 2010 08:17, N. Pauli <npauli at st-johns.org.uk> wrote:
>>> > We're currently considering one of these as a SAN to replace our current directly attached storage RAID5 file server.
>>
> The thing is, we had a technical / sales fellow over from RM who sell regular SAN solutions and this Hitachi SMS-100 which seemed to me totally right-sized and appropriate for us. But he summarily dismissed the SMS-100 [at £8K] as too slow to be a file server and talked a full SAN at double the price and requiring £1350 p.a. of support fees.
>
> As you can see I'm feeling slightly annoyed and extremely cynical about this;
You are quite right to be cynical. Keep that cynicism. the buzzword at
the moment is unified networking - specially at the scale you are
talking about.
Get yourself a reliable core network switch - heck, think abotu 10gig
ethernet for this iSCSI server (I admit this is probably not an
option)

Me, I would ask for a demo unit for a month onsite - see if it does
what you want it to.

The company I work for recently went for Hitachi storage - I'm not
directly involved, so I don;t know what exact kit they have.
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