[Gllug] Hitachi SMS-100

[N. Pauli]

On Fri, 26 Mar, John Hearns wrote:
> 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.

Thanks for the useful advice. To start we're going to use reasonably priced 1gig but that won't preclude upgrading as you suggest when it becomes an option.

Regards,
Nigel

-- 
Nigel Pauli
I.T. Manager
St. John's School, Northwood
http://www.st-johns.org.uk/




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