Pros: Configurable, Great Support, Open Platforms, Quality Cons: Requires some training to install a SAN
This is the top of the line in the industry at this time. This is the most widely supported by all operating systems and brands of computer hardware. The various configurations and levels of fault tolerance are un-matched.
Pros: powerful, lots of space, failsafe Cons: none
As everyone knows, Compaq has been a major player in the PC industry for quite some time now. Well within the last 5 years, Compaq bought Digital Computers (who specialized in storage arrays), and since then, they have been working on integrating...
Pros: Inexpensive, popular, made by Compaq, universal drives are reusable in servers. Cons: At least 36 single points of failure. Primitive management software. Small cache.
We have eight HSG80 ESA and EMA storage systems. These systems were our first SAN storage devices. They have proven to be a moderately reliable departmental storage solution. However, HSG80 based systems are not, in my opinion, an enterprise product. We...
I would recommend this particular RAID system to any IS dept that is looking for relaibility and System Fault Tolerance. This particular raid array is one of the better on the market for high capicity sorage answers. In pratical use it is better suited...
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