Re: Hitachi 7300 disk array ?

From: "michael martin" <michael_martin@komatsu.co.jp> > >Sorry this is kinda off topic but it does include the dreaded >words "RAID 5". > >Is anyone out there using a Hitachi 7300 series disk array subsystem ? > >My illustrious colleagues are "comparing" an EMC 5830 with the >Hitachi 7300 but they seem to be committed to the Hitachi. Funnily enough, I have been stuck in the exact same situation recently. >And they are proposing to go with RAID 5 even though I >have hit them over the head with one of Art Kagel's eloquent >postings on why this is not a good idea. The reason why is that the Hitachi guys claim things like " the actual performance, resilience and time for recoverability is very implementation dependent and it would be wrong to attribute the historical failings of low-end and mid-range arrays to the [Hitachi] architecture. This is a modern architecture with high-end capabilities." Ha, ha! And the guys from EMC, Sun and everywhere else all meekly admit that they are different from this. Of course. >Anyway I would appreciate any comments/opinions/advice on the >Hitachi 7300. Well, it's kind of difficult, because the site I've worked at hasn't yet gone live and I can't really comment. Guess we'll have to be the suckers who define the decisions of thousands in the future. :-) ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com