Hi Winnie,
You're welcome to our old Infortrend SCSI arrays! We have around 30 serviceable ones out of 40 that have 16 x 250GB HDDs that can do up to 2TB per LUN (firmware limitation).
Martin
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Martin Bly
RAL Tier1 Fabric Manager
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes [mailto:TB-
> [log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Winnie Lacesso
> Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2010 11:44 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: DAS RAID storage - anyone used/got Proware? or RAIDKing?
> EUROstor?
>
> Dear All,
>
> Not exactly gLite. We have a CMS server with 6x1.5TB = 7.8TB RAID0 (CMS
> needs fast I/O). They want more space & we've got an Adaptec 39320A
> Ultra320 Dual Channel SCSI controller PCI-X to put in the server.
>
> For SCSI-SATA RAID arrays, we've had Transtec (rebadged Infotrend =
> EonStor) in the past & it was somewhat good & somewhat not: their
> hardware
> was faulty & it was a battle of months to get them to exchange it. Once
> exchanged, it's been faultless & performs well. So they're a known
> evil.
>
> There are a few others out there still providing SCSI-attached SATA
> RAID
> storage: ProWare, RAIDKing, EUROstor... but they're unknown quantity.
> Anyone heard of them or have experience (good or bad) with any of them?
>
> Recommendations or warnings most welcome. I'm hunting reviews to see if
> anyone's put some reviews online...
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