[rescue] FC-AL drives on sale at geeks.com

[David Muran-de Assereto]

On Dec 23, 2007, at 11:56 , Lionel Peterson wrote:

>> From: David Muran-de Assereto <dmuran at tuad.org>
>> Date: 2007/12/23 Sun AM 12:14:13 CST
>> To: Rescue <rescue at sunhelp.org>
>> Subject: [rescue] FC-AL drives on sale at geeks.com
>
>> Just a heads up, no association with seller except past satisfaction.
>>
>> geeks.com is selling 36.4GB 15K FCALs for $4.99 each.
>
> I've got some Dell PowerVault 650F (some sort of bastard child of
> Dell/Calriion, IIRC) that are stuffed with 10 9 Gig FC-AL drives,  
> I'm tempted
> to upgrade them, but 10x 36.4 Gig = about a $60 320 SATA drive[0]...

I agree in general, but that SATA drive doesn't work so well in my  
Blade 1000.

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David Muran-de Assereto
dmuran at tuad.org

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