On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 07:52:52PM -0500, Ben Lutgens wrote: > > Western Scientific. Great Service, they get linux. Can roll large or > small stuff in short order and great prices. I just recently ordered > 31 1U nodes in 3 half racks with FC JBODs, NPS's and they arrived in > these kick ass crates. Fantastic hardware great prices. > > I don't have their number with me now. I'll post it tomorrow. Well, we buy our Intel-based machines from Dell, but I have to agree with Ben that Western Scientific is _the_ place to go for good, reasonably priced storage arrays. We have 5 RAIDs from them and they're all great. Of course, we have them hooked to a few SGI Origin 200's, no Linux machines. If you _really_ high quality RAIDs, go to Ciprico. They're a local company, and their stuff is really top-notch. Though, you need to have serious money. A 500GB Netarray from them is about $50k (well, that's with dual fiber-channel loops) - worth every penny. Gabe -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Gabe Turner gabe at msi.umn.edu SGI Origin Systems Administrator, University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute for Digital Simulation and Advanced Computation www.msi.umn.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------