Does anyone know if details of the R100's architecture are available? Not having the budget to buy one at any price, and info on the site relgated to marketing babble, I'm relegated to staring at the pics, and it seems there's about 1RU on each shelf above the disks. Given that it's IDE-based, it makes sense that the controllers would live there, but what interface is used on the host-side (FCAL?)?
Given a necessity to move the controller closer to the disks, are there more interesting things going on w/ a RAID controller on the shelf ala the company that rhymes with ZooArk? Since alot of the capacity claims on the traditional filers derives from grossly overloading the bus (ie. 3 DS14's on a loop), something like this might be promising.....
just curious.
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