[THIN] Re: Alternative fileservers (EMC Celerra)
- From: "Rick Mack" <ulrich.mack@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 06:13:03 +1000
Hi Jim,
Centera is more than just a data archiving solution. It uses cheap disks but
provides enough layers of redundancy that it's still reliable and you have
a lot faster solution than the traditional optical media based systems that
used to be used for email archiving etc. Quite a few of my customers use
them and they do their job. I think they're somewhat over-priced but
considering that they were designed as a write-once archival solution for
compliance requirements, in that area they're good value for money.
Though I've always wondered about putting archival data on magnetic media
;-)
The Centera with disk extender is a heirarchical storage system and isn't or
shouldn't ever be in a scenario where i/o performance will negatively impact
your environment.
regards,
Rick
Ulrich Mack
Quest Software
Provision Networks Division
On 3/26/08, Jim Kenzig ThinHelp.com <jkenzig@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Rick do you have any thoughts on EMC's Centerra product with Disk
> Extender? We are looking at this for archival purposes. Does this have the
> same issues?
> Jim
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