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Articles for the keywords: RAID 5
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03 Sep 2010
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Sun Storage 6180 Array Outperforms IBM DS5020 [23440]
Better Price/Performance Numbers Using Both RAID 5 and 6
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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08 Jan 2010
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Performance News Bites [22713]
Short Items of Interest on Sun Systems Performance
- Sun Fire X4640 Sets Record on SPECompL2001
- Outstanding Performance of Sun Blade X6275 on FLUENT
- Sun Blades Running NAMD Molecular Dynamics Benchmark Beat IBM
- Sun and Oracle Demonstrate World's Fastest Database Performance
- Sun Ultra 27 With nVidia Graphics Card on SPECviewperf 10 Benchmark
- Sun Storage 6780 Array 51% Better Price/Performance than IBM DS5300
http://blogs.systemnews.com/
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07 Dec 2009
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10 Reasons ZFS is Insanely Great [22457]
Some of the Amazing Features in Sun's Open Source ZFS File System
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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14 Oct 2009
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Sun Storage 6180 Array [22475]
Latest Addition to Sun's Disk Storage Portfolio
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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21 Sep 2009
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InfoWorld Reviews Sun Fire X2270 and X4270 Servers [22231]
Noted as Impressive Entries into the Nehalem-based Server Market
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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