On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 9:15 AM, Matthew Zito <mzito@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I would definitely put a vote in for NetApp - lots of flexibility, good > performance, multiprotocol, outstanding snapshot capability. For OLTP workloads, I concur. For DSS/Data Warehousing, they are at the bottom of my list. For DSS (high IO bandwidth workloads) I think the mid-range storage is the best offering today. EMC CLARiiON CX3 and Sun StorageTek 6140 make my short list. In DSS it is better to have multiple arrays with a smaller number of drives in each, than to have a big array with a large number of drives. This is because the array head becomes the bottleneck well before you fill up the cabinet - so why pay for space to put drives when you can't get any more read throughput off of them (unless you are looking for a storage only solution vs. performance) -- Regards, Greg Rahn http://structureddata.org -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l