Need to add 10G disk storage to SS 4/470
2007-12-25 7:43:00
> One of my user groups wants to add ~10G of disk capacity to our Sun
> 4/470 server... I have 2 SCSI disks, a 1/4in tape drive, an 8mm tape
> drive, and a cd player on the current bus. In addition, there is a
> separate mass storage box that contains one 1.2G IPI drive and has
> bays for 3 or 4 more drives.
> ...
I received replies from the following: (Thanks folks)
Eugene H. Simpson III <Eugene.H.Simpson.III@acenet.auburn.edu>
holle@ASC.SLB.COM (Kathy Holle)
Anthony A. Datri" <datri@concave.convex.com>
mdl@cypress.com (J. Matt Landrum)
Perry_Hutchison.Portland@xerox.com
mce@sdcc10.UCSD.EDU (Mark Edwards)
Tim Beyea <beyea@ERC.MsState.Edu>
John R. Kilheffer <amp19263@garfield.amp.com>
kalli!kevin@fourx.aus.sun.com (Kevin Sheehan {Consulting Poster Child})
Eckhard.Rueggeberg@ts.go.dlr.de
Grootwassink, David" <GROOTWASS@tawc1.eglin.af.mil>
John Paul O'Brien" <john@solar.nova.edu>
Richard Wong" <rnw@math.Princeton.EDU>
mks!alex@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca (Alex White)
ldavis!woden!gunn@snowbird.central.sun.com (David Gunn)
oran@spg.amdahl.com (Oran Davis)
paulo@dcc.unicamp.br (Paulo L. de Geus)
Mike Raffety <miker@sbcoc.com>
A number of options were suggested:
o Purchase a stand-alone NFS file server; A computer designed
to handle up to 80G of disk space and serve it to your net.
Purported to be quite fast and well designed. A bit pricey
for our group at a list of ~85k for a starter kit at 30+G,
but looked nice for those with the budget to handle it.
o Add IPI drives in my existing bays; this is quite expensive.
for what you get.
o Add a second SCSI controller to the VME bus and a batch of
SCSI drives.
o A fanout that allows you to add seven more drives to a single
port on the existing SCSI bus can be had for ~$900. This, to
me, seems to be a potential bottleneck of awesome proportions.
It is touted for systems that cannot support a second bus.
o Buy a VME/SCSI card (~$1500) and 5 of the new SCSI disks
that format to 2+G (Micropolis 1924, Elite-3, Wren-9). These
disks are variously reported to be just-our or out real soon
now. We have prices of around 3600 each (5year warranty) for
this class of drive. We were quoted around 2600 each for a
six-pack of the current crop of drives that format to ~1.7G.
This is probably the option we will select. I will mail the
responses to all who are interested in more detail.
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