with a company called Winchester Systems? They're advertising the 'World's Fastest RAID Disk Array' at a very reasonable price. I'm getting pressure from the CTO to get these things in here for eval.
Its a very nice host-attached raid.. We've got 8 or so with 18gb 15krpm drives, w/ dual lvd attachments to the hosts. Our correlation databases gobble the things up. W/ host caching, our 420's can sustain 30+ myte/s to them. Of the many boxes I've looked at, this may not be the fastest but cost:perf ratio _is_ the best.
AFAIK it's a infortends controller w/ Winchester-tweaked fw in a kingston case. All in all a very nice product. Their box is extremely easy to configure, so I felt kinda guilty when the SE flew out and I was just starting up some tests on the demo units they sent. Their sales process was very positive (no bashing), and I have to say we've had an all around good experience with them.
(their spare disk cases are pretty damn cool too.. I asked why one of our colo guys was carrying around a handgun case when I first saw them)
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