FYI, Sun is having a big, 25th Anniversary sale. X4500s are half price -- 24 TBytes for $24k. ZFS runs really well on a X4500. http://www.sun.com/emrkt/25sale/index.jsp?intcmp=tfa5101 I appologize for those not in the US or UK and can''t take advantage of the sale. -- richard
Also related to ZFS/X4500: 1) Sun Fire X4500 Data Server for Mainframes, ZFS for mainframe: http://www.luminex.com/about/press/pr070417.html 2) Written by Jim Gray and his co-workers: Performance of a Sun X4500 under Windows, NTFS and SQLserver 2005 http://research.microsoft.com/~Gray/papers/JHU_thumper.pdf Rayson On 4/23/07, Richard Elling <Richard.Elling at sun.com> wrote:> FYI, > Sun is having a big, 25th Anniversary sale. X4500s are half price -- > 24 TBytes for $24k. ZFS runs really well on a X4500.
On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 01:56:53PM -0700, Richard Elling wrote:> FYI, > Sun is having a big, 25th Anniversary sale. X4500s are half price -- > 24 TBytes for $24k. ZFS runs really well on a X4500. > http://www.sun.com/emrkt/25sale/index.jsp?intcmp=tfa5101 > I appologize for those not in the US or UK and can''t take advantage > of the sale.Gah, why didn''t sun do this 5 months ago? Now we''re stuck with these Equallogic boxes, which are nice, but do iSCSI only, and as it turns out, we could really use NFS as well. Maybe I can talk them into a Thumper or two anyway. ;) -brian -- "Perl can be fast and elegant as much as J2EE can be fast and elegant. In the hands of a skilled artisan, it can and does happen; it''s just that most of the shit out there is built by people who''d be better suited to making sure that my burger is cooked thoroughly." -- Jonathan Patschke
On 4/23/07, Richard Elling <Richard.Elling at sun.com> wrote:> FYI, > Sun is having a big, 25th Anniversary sale. X4500s are half price -- > 24 TBytes for $24k. ZFS runs really well on a X4500. > http://www.sun.com/emrkt/25sale/index.jsp?intcmp=tfa5101 > I appologize for those not in the US or UK and can''t take advantage > of the sale.I really don''t think that advertisements are the right thing to drop into these maillists. Dennis