[clug-talk] Storage Area Networks - Network attached Storage Solutions?

[Mark Lane]

On December 2, 2004 04:14 pm, Sheridan Hawken <sheridan.hawken at trema.com> 
wrote:
> Hi Rafael,
>
> Take a look at the IBM D4300 SAN.  It is FibreChannel Drives and can
> take multiple drive cabinets to get you to 4 TB easy (max capacity is 16
> TB).  FibreChannel is not cheap.  IBM does have the D4300 on sale this
> month for around 25000 CAD  regular price is 83000 CAD.  It comes with 4
> fibrecards to put in your servers.  It handles linux servers no problem.
> ~ Most of the IBM resellers in town can tell you more about it.
>

Yeah that's a good deal but SAN is seriously expensive. A 4TB NAS though can 
be had for 10K CAD.
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