fishinjts@netscape.net (John S.) wrote in message news:<31a28a6c.0402050356.3ef6b631@posting.google. com>...
> "Richard ST.clair" <comprichard@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<BtiUb.13737$uM2.13550@newsread1.news.pas.ear thlink.net>...
> > i found a sun external array has three drawers that hold ten 68pin drives
> > for a total of thirty drives,hot swapable
> > dual hot swap power supplies
> > and what looks like a fiber optic interface. can any one tell me some info
> > on this thank you
>
> The good 'ol Sun SSA array... it uses was is known as a SOC connection
> and was only available in an Sbus adaptor... so unless you got some
> old Sun servers to hook it up to... They were pretty good though in
> their day... and while the drives were hot swapable you had to be able
> to take the other 9 drives off line too! LOL! A little inconvienent
> but could be done... ;-)
>
> And like i said unless you have a Sun server that uses Sbus adaptors
> it's not going to be of any use...
>
> hth,
> john

I bought two 3300 last year and am delighted with the - they have 4
hosts attached and my only problem was the cost of the SCSI cards for
the Sun Fire boxes.

Easy to configure and it built two 270gb arrays (12 x 73gb) in just
over an hour.

Cheers

JRP