[rescue] Sun 711

[Shawn Wallbridge]

I already am sponsoring the T-card project (I bought a Qlogic 2100 card on
eBay and had it shipped to Dave so he could test with it)

;-)

shawn

-----Original Message-----
From: rescue-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:rescue-admin at sunhelp.org]On
Behalf Of Joshua D Boyd
Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 6:18 PM
To: rescue at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [rescue] Sun 711


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