Terry writes...


> We have installed 60GB on EMC Symmetrix on my clients 939 development
> machine running 5.0.  After a few installation glitches like the
> correct
> firmware on the SCSI board and a bad SCSI cable, the installation was
> relatively painless.
>
> Currently we are considering how to cost justify the EMC disks.  Our
> initial analysis indicates that the major savings is through reduced
> maintenance of our disk drives and reduced cost per megabyte of disk
> drives, reduced floor space, reduced power, reduced SCSI cards,
> reduced
> I/O bays, and etc.
>
>
> Depending on what you will be using the disk for, it would probably be
> cheaper to put RAID5 disk on an NT server using Mylex controllers.
> Each controller comes with three 7 port SE SCSI channels, and the
> Seagate 9GB disks are fairly cheap.
> If the NT server is used only for a file sharing, it need only be a
> low end HP Netserver (E30). The E30 has four PCI slots, so you could
> have 4 Mylex Cards x 3 Channels on each x 7(6 actually because of
> RAID5) 9GB Seagates = a whopping 648GB of space available on your
> network.
>
> And, of course, with Samba/iX, even the HP3000 could use the space!
>
> Regards
>
> Neil
>
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