My company bought one to test out for our remote offices. We love it and will be sending it out to all our remote offices around the globe.
Small, inexpensive, RAID protected, iSCSI (no new switching required) and built by HDS. Sweet!
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"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
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We've rolled out 3 so far and have a few more to do. They have been very easy to do and don't require a lot of time to get them up and running. We've used the FC interfaces instead of the iSCSI as they are being attached to the remote office DC server which also shares out CIFS to the workers desktops. Very easy to get running in my opinion.
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"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
Albert Einstein
Are they being used for any databases or Exchange and how is the performance?
My situation is that I am planning to purchase a Netapp 2050 for our main office and was going to get a Storevault S550 for our remote office. Netapp just killed the Storevault line. So now I'm searching for a solution other than Windows DAS. The SMS100 seems to be even more redundant than the S550 and supports faster disks. Although what I was planning on doing with the S550 was replicate data back to the main office.
I'll probably contact Hitachi directly to find out more.
We're just using it for file storage at our remote offices, but for such a small package it is very fast. Tons of redundancy and a nice mix of drives. For simple installations where not much space is needed, but redundancy and performance are I would definitely recommend this box.
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"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
Albert Einstein
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