[Gllug] Hitachi SMS-100

[Juergen Schinker]

N. Pauli wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> We're currently considering one of these as a SAN to replace our current directly attached storage RAID5 file server.
> 
> We're a school with about 500 user accounts. Next year we would like to virtualise some of our current servers [mainly lightly loaded database servers but also one handling WSUS and acting as a BDC] which means they too would be using the SMS-100.
> 
> Is anyone out there using an SMS-100 as their main fileserver and/or can tell me whether it would be up to the job?
> 
> Regards,
> Nigel
> 

  I recommend you buy a Terrastation from Buffalo...

connected via iSCSI and a reasonable fast Gigabit switch

should be good enough for the job
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