[TriLUG] OT: Low cost way to offline 3 Tb

[Jeremy Portzer]

bak wrote:
> well, that thing has a got a 2Gb fibre channel interface, but that 
> doesn't mean you're going to get 256 MB/sec out of it -- not that anyone 
> seems to be saying that in this case.
> 
> plus, it's not a JBOD -- I don't think you could hook up a NetApp shelf 
> to some random pizzabox with an HBA and have it work.
> 
> 14x500GB for $5K -- is this cheap, and the JBOD absurdly cheap, or is 
> the JBOD cheap, and this is expensive? :)

It's pretty cheap for a NetApp.  People pay absurd amounts of money for
certain brand names, in certain arenas.

But it's only a drive shelf.  You need a NetApp filer head too to make 
it work, which costs more than a few extra kilobucks.  All nice 
proprietary stuff :-)

--Jeremy