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#1 (**permalink**) 01-16-2008, 11:57 AM

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

#2 (**permalink**) 01-16-2008, 11:57 AM

Richard ST.clair wrote:

> 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

Either an SSA112 or an SSA114. If it's a 112 then it's only rated for 2GB
drives in each slot, a 114 being rated for 4GB drives.

From practical experimentation I have discovered that a 114 can actually use
up to 9GB drives in each slot giving you a total of 270TB of storage.

These arrays were originally shipped with a Veritas Volume Manager license
and install disks for VxVM which would only work on Solaris 2.5.1.

This uses 25MB/s FC (Not actually "real" FC but an earlier standard) which I
don't believe you can get PCI cards for. If you have an SBus based Sun then
you are made, the cards retail over in the UK for around £350 each on the
second user market.

Quite a nice array for home use, not really much cop for datacentre use
these days simply because the standards have moved on so much. A5000s and
A5200s are cheap these days and quite a lot faster.

P.

#3 (**permalink**) 01-16-2008, 11:57 AM

"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

#4 (**permalink**) 01-16-2008, 11:57 AM

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

#5 (**permalink**) 01-16-2008, 11:58 AM

It's an SSA Array and it uses 80 pin drives. It is a fiber connection and
the optional card is $100 for SBUS
"Richard ST.clair" <comprichard@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> 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
>
>

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#6 (**permalink**) 01-16-2008, 11:59 AM

"Richard ST.clair" <comprichard@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:BtiUb.13737$uM2.13550@newsread1.news.pas.eart hlink.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
>
>
Hi its me again I once saw a pci bus card that looked like it had that same
soc connection
it was made by marquee medical systems it might have been a test card

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