Storage
Dell EqualLogic PS6010XVS review
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
The Dell EqualLogic PS6010XVS with automated storage tiering leverages fast SAS or faster SSD storage depending on workload.
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Wednesday, October 20, 2010
The Dell EqualLogic PS6010XVS with automated storage tiering leverages fast SAS or faster SSD storage depending on workload.
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Thursday, October 8, 2009
Compellent has done very well in previous tests, once again has an excellent overall system that combines very high performance, good capacity, great ease-of-use, and an excellent feature set.
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Thursday, October 8, 2009
The build it yourself Promise and DataCore system represents how far you can go on a tight budget if you're willing to roll up your sleeves.
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Thursday, October 8, 2009
The Pillar Data AX600 is not unusual physically, with three components, a management unit (called a Pilot), a controller head (the Slammer), and drive shelves (Bricks), but Pillar Data's approach to storage provisioning and management is definitely unusual.
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Thursday, October 8, 2009
The HP 2000sa G2 Modular Smart Array is the first storage system we've received that uses 2.5-inch drives, fitting 24 drives into a 2U chassis rather than the usual 16-drive 3U chassis that we see on most systems.
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Thursday, October 8, 2009
Dell acquired EqualLogic in 2007, adding a strong iSCSI player to their existing Fibre Channel storage options. EqualLogic offers some very usable iSCSI systems at good prices, from a base of around $10,000, to $17,000 as tested, to well over $100,000.
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Friday, November 2, 2007
An improved Zetera Z-SAN-based product for the small business market. Z-SAN is proprietary compared to open iSCSI and represents good value.
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Tuesday, September 25, 2007
The A12S-G2130 is a versatile SAS/SATA RAID array with a good desktop management tool, whose RS-232 and browser-based config interfaces are clunky but largely irrelevant anyway.
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Friday, July 21, 2006
Oh dear. What looked like a friendly product turned into a monster that needed undocumented utilitites to fix.
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Friday, April 28, 2006
The Axiom suite is a high-availability storage system that any decent system manager should be able to comprehend with no need for long training courses or expensive vendor intervention, and is well worth a look for anyone charged with building a corporate storage subsystem.
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