[rescue] Sun 711

[Shawn Wallbridge]

711's hold 6 or 12 drives. We need around 864GB (52 minutes), so I was
thinking 24 36GB drives.

I can't see a 4 drives sustaining that for long.

I don't really know much about FC, so I can't guess how much it would cost,
but I assumed a FC-AL RAID controller would be expensive (at least more than
a U160 SCSI RAID controller) and then I need a FC-AL enclosure.

shawn

-----Original Message-----
From: Sridhar the POWERful [mailto:vance at ikickass.org]
Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 5:29 PM
To: Shawn Wallbridge
Cc: rescue at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [rescue] Sun 711


On Wed, 1 May 2002, Shawn Wallbridge wrote:

> Just wondering if the Sun 711 can take Ultra-160 SCSI drives and
> operate at U160 speeds.
>
> I need to figure out how to get 300MB/s (uncompressed 2K video)
> sustained on a machine. I am thinking two U160 PCI (64/66) RAID
> controllers with two 711's filled with 36GB 15k rpm Cheetah's.

How big are 711's?  Four drives per bus would suffice.  Maybe even less.
I'm too lazy to check the specs on the drives.

> A big ass FC-AL array (too expensive?)

Why too expensive?  It doesn't cost *that* much more than SCSI.

Peace...  Sridhar

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