Hi,

I am currently looking at attaching some RAID disk to our E4500.

The A1000 is a hardware RAID system but uses a SBUS card in the E4500.
The 5200 uses a GBIC card added to the E4500 and is Software Raid ( Veritas)

Can anyone suggest advantages/disadvantages for both systems?

I am mainly worried about the performance of software RAID.

The data stored would be a mixture of Large ( 1-2GB) and small 300K files.
There is NO Database system in use.

The applications accessing the data are Matlab/Synopsys/Eldo/Xilinx.

I have already obtained pricing and the 5200 option is actually 100UKP
cheaper!!!
This is with a full A1000 and a half full 5200.

Any help gratefully appreciated,

Mark

"Mark" <mark.wooldridge@camNOSPAMcon.co.uk> wrote in message news:<blcc94$ggb$1@andromeda.camcon.co.uk>...
> Hi,
>
> I am currently looking at attaching some RAID disk to our E4500.
>
> The A1000 is a hardware RAID system but uses a SBUS card in the E4500.
> The 5200 uses a GBIC card added to the E4500 and is Software Raid ( Veritas)
>
> Can anyone suggest advantages/disadvantages for both systems?
>
> I am mainly worried about the performance of software RAID.
>
> The data stored would be a mixture of Large ( 1-2GB) and small 300K files.
> There is NO Database system in use.
>
> The applications accessing the data are Matlab/Synopsys/Eldo/Xilinx.
>
> I have already obtained pricing and the 5200 option is actually 100UKP
> cheaper!!!
> This is with a full A1000 and a half full 5200.
>
> Any help gratefully appreciated,
>
> Mark


Hey Mark,

i think it's better you have a look for the 3310 / 3350 - storages.
The 3310 is for SCSI and the 3350 for FC. Both with RAID-Controller.
A1000 and 5200 are older and there EOL is reached.

Hope to help you.

Klaus Grote

In article <93bac7d6.0309302254.751df235@posting.google.com >,
Klaus Grote <klaus.grote@web.de> wrote:
>"Mark" <mark.wooldridge@camNOSPAMcon.co.uk> wrote in message
>news:<blcc94$ggb$1@andromeda.camcon.co.uk>...
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am currently looking at attaching some RAID disk to our E4500.

>i think it's better you have a look for the 3310 / 3350 - storages.

Unfortunately these are not easily supported on a E4500, esp if
you use a Solaris release < 8. My vote goes to a Refurbished
T3ES pair with two years of included gold service from a Sun reseller.

They are pretty cheap AND performs well AND are supported on the E4500.

/wfr
Fredrik
--
Fredrik Lundholm
dol @ ce.chalmers.se

Use the A5200 they are a matched set You can get a A5200 with 22 73 gig
FC-AL disks for $14k. Sun is still selling this for over $100k This will
give you 1.6TB of storage.
Call me if you have any Questions.
Thanks
Mike Beckmann
847-468-8900
"Fredrik Lundholm" <dol@ce.chalmers.se> wrote in message
news:ble27s$fh9$1@eol.dd.chalmers.se...
> In article <93bac7d6.0309302254.751df235@posting.google.com >,
> Klaus Grote <klaus.grote@web.de> wrote:
> >"Mark" <mark.wooldridge@camNOSPAMcon.co.uk> wrote in message
> >news:<blcc94$ggb$1@andromeda.camcon.co.uk>...
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I am currently looking at attaching some RAID disk to our E4500.
>
> >i think it's better you have a look for the 3310 / 3350 - storages.
>
> Unfortunately these are not easily supported on a E4500, esp if
> you use a Solaris release < 8. My vote goes to a Refurbished
> T3ES pair with two years of included gold service from a Sun reseller.
>
> They are pretty cheap AND performs well AND are supported on the E4500.
>
> /wfr
> Fredrik
> --
> Fredrik Lundholm
> dol @ ce.chalmers.se
>



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