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.
We currently have an F840 that I'm extremely happy with. I don't necessarily want to compare the two ... since the F840 is a NAS and Winchester makes locally attached scsi stuff. Just interested any any experience with the company and/or their product.
Cheers,
Robert
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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On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 12:52:30PM -0700, kevin graham wrote:
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)
I, too, have these in production as well.
We have 11 of them, 6 of them attached to our mail cluster (we store the email on the NetApp) for use as our transient storage for both incoming and outbound email.
They are a VAR - their value is in the experience and building it for you. Their cabling is is beautiful, their packaging is incredible (almost wasteful!), their support is very easy to work with.
But they aren't a NetApp :)
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