Not spam at all ... Storage, storage management and storage performance (along with tying it all to a backup system) is still quite often my biggest headache in the work I do to pay the rent. One of the reasons this list is so great is the high level of participation from folks who do this stuff (large and small) for real in production settings. Thanks Joe, I'll grab the data and ping you offline for the info. -Chris On Feb 6, 2007, at 3:30 PM, Joe Landman wrote: > > At the risk of spamming, we have a 5U 36TB storage appliance that > is ... uh ... kinda fast (RAID6) doing iSCSI, NAS, CIFS, ... > specifically designed for HPC workloads, and less expensive that > other folks systems ... Bug me offline if you want benchmark data > (http://scalableinformatics.com/public/IOzone-JR-baseline.png) ... >