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So tell me where I can pick one up cheap <Grin>.  I'll fill two trays with
9 9gigs each, and be a happy camper.
	Nick

On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, David Passmore wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 06:47:24PM -0500, Bill Bradford wrote:
> 
> > > The T3 is pure FC-AL with hardware RAID. I wouldn't buy one of these.
> > 
> > Why not?
> 
> Only two LUNs per tray with 9 drives
> Trays must be installed in pairs
> Not switched fabric capable
> Not Sun Cluster certified (!)
> Configured over the network (built-in ethernet)
> Very, very poor performance
> 
> Some of these issues may have been fixed with new firmware revisions, but
> when I first demoed this array, after all the hype Sun had put into it (they
> called it their EMC killer!) I was utterly turned off by it.
> 
> They would have been much better off with the A7000.
> 
> David
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