[geeks] SAN opinions

[Phil Stracchino]

On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 08:12:00AM -0500, Dan Sikorski wrote:
> What brand of SAN equipment is considered to be the best?  I'm looking 
> at a project to potentially put in a SAN for some Dell windows servers.  
> Dell sells rebadged EMC products, which from my understanding mostly has 
> a reputation for being overpriced. While price is not the only concern, 
> i don't want to waste money.  What does the geeks collective reccomend?


Don't know if they'd do what you want or not, but ....  have you looked
at Adaptec's SnapServers?  I know Ceva-DSP in San Jose just replaced a
JBOD with a SnapServer 4500, and it's working great for them.  Does
SMB/CIFS, NFSv2/v3, Appleshare, and has pretty good LVM.  (I think it's
a proprietary embedded OS.)


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