[rescue] Sun 711

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 06:07:47PM -0500, Shawn Wallbridge wrote:
> 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.

I don't know about the FC-AL enclosure, but I always thought that the price
of FC-AL controllers looked reasonable.  Assuming that FC-AL is FC-AL for
you purposes (as opposed to needing special SANblades, or whatever), and 
that qlogic is a good brand, there are number of cards for $75-$150 each
Buy It Now on ebay.  Well, I found one for $100 looking for FC-AL.  Looking
for qlogic and fiber I found a bunch of $150 ones.  Looking for Qlogic and
fibre returns a lot for $75, which is not much more expensive than U2W 
controllers (too lazy to also look up U160 controllers).  FC-AL disks tend
to be cheap if you are allowed to buy them on ebay.  The only sticky point
(and the reason I'm not buying lots of them) is enclosures for the things.

You just need to get your company to sponser the completion of the cheap
T-Cards that DaveM et al are working on. ;).

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd