In an exhaustive review, ILM Informatique put the Sun Storage 7110 Unified Storage System through its paces during a 60-day try-and-buy period and came up with a verdict that should be pleasing to Sun's marketing staff: "The Sun Storage 7110 Unified Storage System makes it easier than ever to simplify your storage for less. The easy-to-use appliance is ideal for enterprise workgroups, remote offices or SMBs, and offers enterprise storage at entry-level prices." Read the entire review here.

The packaging, the materials used to build the unit, the design, the documentation, the ease of configuration all found favor to one degree or another with the reviewer. The absence of a UPS connection, the assumption that users would also own a DNS server, the absence of adequate protection such as fail2ban against a brute force attack ... these were some of the reservations noted in ILM Informatique's assessment of the 7110.

Still, the review concludes on a decidedly positive note: "The Sun Storage 7110 server we tested made the brilliant demonstration of its velocity and was easy to configure. Solaris and its ZFS filesystem using the full power of the hardware. At $10,995, you will not regret your investment. It will be very difficult to find the bottleneck of the server; moreover it will keep your files safe. We will keep in mind its lack of advanced features (CIFS, UPS support...) and the disturbing technical choices (DNS, security ...). However it was impossible for us to find major defects in this concentrate of technology."

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