David A. Lethe wrote:
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>
> I'm curioius.... did they ever comment on such "minor" topics such as:
>  -> SSA performance vs FC-AL & Parallel SCSI?
>  -> SSA's ability to allow multiple drives to simultaneously do I/O
> across the same channel ... resulting in BETTER performance as drives
> are added??
>  -> SSA's added RELIABILITY/AVAILABILITY over parallel-SCSI based
>     subsystems.

David,

For my site and I would assume most other high-availability geared users
of the HP3000 (your main target for these drives I would assume), we
will not put our data on something HP has not OFFICIALLY blessed.

Period, regardless of how reliable, fast ect. your drives are!

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