Which storage device recomended for SunFire V880

I agree with rukbat here, there are no Sun manufactured storage devices for USB, not even for the smallest workstation.

There is a list of third party storage products that are verified, and can be used with Sun SPARC based systems running Solaris.

Here is a link:

<a href="http&#58;&#47;&#47;www.sun.com/io_technologies/Storage.html" target="_blank">http://www.sun.com/io_technologies/Storage.html</a>

Even though the V880 is now EOL and there are quite a few cheap, ex lease machines becoming available on the used market, I cannot see the point in using USB as a storage option! Not even for infrequently accessed data. USB has very poor performance, for the V880 I think you're talking about 12MB/s, which would have slower transfer rate than a CDROM on a SPARCstation 5. My advice to anyone considering cheap storage for a system like a V880, buy a FC or NAS storage system that supports SATA drives.

There are some NAS options listed in the link above.

mlennon at 2007-7-5 17:51:05 >