9 GB Disks for A1000, D1000, and A3500 Arrays

9 GB, 10000-rpm disk drives can be configured into Sun StorEdge A1000, D1000, and A3500 storage subsystems. X-option and upgrade disks are also available. The new disk drive will provide approximately 25 to 30 percent more IOPS from the arrays when compared to arrays with 7200-rpm drives.

Sun has announcing the following:

New pricing for Sun StorEdge A1000, D1000, and A3500 arrays and upgrades with 18-GB disks
Competitive Upgrades
Special promotional pricing of upgrades for Sun StorEdge A1000, D1000, and A3500 arrays
Price changes to previously announced promotional pricing of upgrades
Introduction of the Sun StorEdge A3500-Light array
Transition of Sun StorEdge A3500 array configurations with 9 GB, 7200-rpm disks

Prices range from about $1275 for an individual disk to about $500k for a 1,635 GB Sun StorEdge A3500 (which includes three controller modules and fifteen disk trays with 9 GB disks mounted in two Sun StorEdge 72-inch expansion cabinets with six 12-meter UltraSCSI cables)

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Other articles in the Storage section of Volume 8, Issue 1:

Sun StorEdge A5000 Array
A1000 and A3500 Disk Array Upgrade Promotions
9 GB Disks for A1000, D1000, and A3500 Arrays (this article)
Solstice DiskSuite Support for Sun StorEdge Arrays
9 GB, 10000-rpm Disks

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