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SAN Upgrades And Tilting Dogs: Page 2 of 4

A bigger, better head for our SAN thanks to the folks at EqualLogic.
JOE HERNICK
January 07, 2008

Stay tuned for notes on general setup, care and feeding, thin provisioning, and lessons learned.

The gritty details:

  • A three-u case maxxed out at 4.8 terabytes of raw storage from sixteen (16) 300 Gbyte Serial Attached SCSI drives spinning at 15,000 RPM.
  • Dense and heavy. The full rig weighs about 80 pounds. Take it from experience: you don't want to rack this alone.
  • Three (3) Gb interfaces; Peak bandwidth is ~300MBps. We'll be testing all claims and specs.

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