[BBLISA] Recommendation for NAS appliance?

[Mark Lamourine]

Mark Lamourine wrote:

Correction.  The 24TB Thumper is 29K$US list.
> Paul Beltrani wrote:
>   
>> We're looking for a basic, enterprise class appliance to serve 15TB to
>> 30TB of mission critical storage via NFS.   We're considering the
>> offerings from NetApp and EMC but they're much more than we need. For
>> example, we don't need features like mirroring or remote replication.
>>
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> Disclaimer: I work for Snoracle, and in the X86 hardware group (QA).
>
> How about a thumper?  (x4540).  They can serve at least 24TB/chassis, 
> and I think with 1TB disks instead of the 500GB SATA drives I have in 
> the one I use at work you'd have 48TB raw storage.  You would want to 
> run Solaris and use ZFS.
>
> ($25K) for 24TB unit, $50K for 48TB unit, 4xGBE ethernet and room for 
> additional quad NICs if needed.
>
> I honestly can't tell you how that compares with the alternatives.
>
> - Mark
>
>
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>> Would anyone care to recommend a vendor or appliance they're happy with?
>>
>>   - Paul Beltrani
>>
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