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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 -- 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...