Using the SPC Benchmark-1 to determine price-performance ratios for a number of storage systems, the benchmark delivered results that demonstrate a 1.9 X advantage for the Sun Storage 6180 (8Gb) array over the IBM DS5020, reported a Sun BestPerf blog. In another blog entry, testing of the same storage arrays on the SPC Benchmark-2 produced some interesting price-performance results as well.
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Paul Rubens with Enterprise Networking Planet lists what he believes are the top 10 features of Sun's open source ZFS file system. These include checksums in metadata for data integrity, copy on write, data snapshots with Time Slider, pooled data storage, RAIDZ and RAIDZ2, among others.
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The Sun Storage 6180 Array is a high-performance, enterprise-class, full 8 Gigabit per second (Gb/sec) I/O Fibre Channel solution with backend loop speeds of 2 or 4 Gb/sec. It is modular, rackmountable, and scalable from a single dual-controller tray (1x1) configuration to a maximum configuration of 1x7 with six additional CSM200 expansion trays behind one controller tray. Sun reports that this new array delivers 50% more performance than Sun's previous generation, and over 70% better price/performance than the IBM DS5020.
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The Sun Fire X2270 and X4270 servers "... are the fastest x64 servers Sun has ever produced," writes Paul Venezia in his InfoWorld review. He states that both models are impressive entries into the Nehalem-based server market and would like to see them survive the acquisition of Sun by Oracle.
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