Comments on: Sun Honeymoon Update: Storage

By: Kristyn

Kristyn — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 03:47:47 +0000

just came across. Nice blog

By: storage area network

storage area network — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:14:47 +0000

Network Area Storage (NAS) is easier to share files on the network but the price is still too expensive, especially for use only at home.

By: SmugBlog: Don MacAskill » Blog Archive » Companies That Listen: Sun

SmugBlog: Don MacAskill » Blog Archive » Companies That Listen: Sun — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 19:12:26 +0000

[...] I’m happy to report that Sun listens to their customers. Really, truly, listens. Even to small ones like me. Even to small ones like me who complain loudly when a product isn’t right (but who cheer equally loudly when it is). [...]

By: It’s all Hard » Blog Archive » Sun StorEdge 3320 Review

It’s all Hard » Blog Archive » Sun StorEdge 3320 Review — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 11:48:24 +0000

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sun » Blog Archive » Sun StorEdge 3320 Review — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 12:05:11 +0000

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By: SmugBlog: Don MacAskill » Blog Archive » Dell MD3000 - Great DAS DB Storage

Tue, 02 Oct 2007 00:03:07 +0000

[...] So I’ve written about storage before, specifically our quest for The Perfect DB Storage Array and how Sun’s storage didn’t stack up with their excellent servers. As you can probably tell, I spend a lot of my time thinking about and investigating storage – both small-and-fast for our DBs and huge-and-slower (like S3) for our photos. [...]

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 25 May 2007 18:46:31 +0000

Sun storage in this range has been awful for years. Way, way, overpriced and nearly impossible to make perform decently. I see even their new line of storage is still way overpriced. At my previous job I bought a bunch of Sun V20Z’s but used Dell storage (connected to LSI MegaRaid cards installed in the V20Z). Before that I was forced to use another departments Sun T-3 Fibre Channel storage. It was hideously slow and ungodly expensive. Finally a Sun tech discovered some sort of misconfiguration and it got to the point of being usuable, but I could still get better write performance on a single UltraSCSI disk.

The Dell storage attached to the V20Z flew like lightning.

BTW, has anyone at Sun contacted you about you about your miserable experience?

By: Sun StorEdge 3320 Review « Veronica’s Lore

Sun StorEdge 3320 Review « Veronica’s Lore — Thu, 24 May 2007 00:34:16 +0000

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By: "links for 2007-05-23" by Bob Plankers, The Lone Sysadmin

"links for 2007-05-23" by Bob Plankers, The Lone Sysadmin — Wed, 23 May 2007 06:17:29 +0000

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By: Neil Corlett

Neil Corlett — Tue, 22 May 2007 22:52:59 +0000

AFAIK, the SE3320 is re-badged DotHill kit. They were generally pretty good.
There are Sun blogs floating around that suggest increasing the number of PCI transactions in play speeds things up.
http://blogs.sun.com/ValdisFilks/entry/improving_i_o_throughput_for
However, black magic ought not be necessary. This stuff should (preferably) work out of the box (esp. from a systems company) or it should be well documented in the release notes. Too often it is not.