Sun A1000 with 72gb disks? Experience with QuantumSnap12000 & solaris?
2007-12-24 21:01:00
appreciated. Summary will follow.
(1) Does anyone know if the Sun A1000 will accept & use 72-gig SCSI
disks? The specs pages indicate official support for 36 gig drives as
the maximum per-drive capacity. Our sales rep mumbled something about
72gig disk support "eventually" at the start of the year. I'm just
curious if anyone has actually installed larger format disks to see what
happens. (ie, if they work!)
(2) does anyone have experience with Quantum SnapServer 12000 NAS ? (as
seen at the URL below)
http://www.snapserver.com/products/12000/index.asp
(model 12000 is the only one with a decent amount of storage really,
IMHO). In particular I'm curious about user-management issues, ie,
assuming you have NFS shares from the NAS-> Solaris boxes, is it
relatively painless to setup users:groups on the NAS device which are
similar (identical to?) those used on solaris .. ?
For that matter, if anyone has any strong positive experiences with NAS
devices I'm interested to hear. I do understand that NetApps are pretty
decent but from what I can see the pricing isn't quite as competitive as
for the quantum thing (which is $15k USD for 960gig raw storage or 750
gig in Raid5). However, maybe this is a case of "get what you pay for" ?
Thanks very much!
-Tim Chipman
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