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

[Joshua Boyd]

On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 03:22:16AM -0500, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
> David Muran-de Assereto wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> The SATA drive won't be anywhere near as fast, though, no?

The latest SATA drives are pushing 100MB/s.  I would imagine that you
would have to be looking at some pretty darn new FC drives to beat that.