Joseph L. Casale wrote: >>Unless you have a good storage system.. >> >>a blog entry I wrote last year: >>http://www.techopsguys.com/2009/11/24/81000-raid-arrays/ >> >>Another one where I ripped into Equallogic's claims: >>http://www.techopsguys.com/2010/03/26/enterprise-equallogic/ > > Lol, Nate... > The op was looking at spending a few grand, not a few million > you show off:) million? Nowhere close to that, you can get a 12-15TB system(raw) in the ~$130-150k range (15k RPM). If you want SATA instead say $80k. Few million and you can get a world record breaker array with more than a thousand drives(15k RPM) and loaded with all the software they have. The capabilities of the system is the same from the low end to the high end the only difference is scale really. nate