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Sun Unveils RAID-Less Storage Appliance

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the testing-the-cutting-edge-of-data-storage-sounds-less-than-fun dept.

pisadinho writes "eWEEK's Chris Preimesberger explains how Sun Microsystems has completely discarded RAID volume management in its new Amber Road storage boxes, released today. Because it uses the Zettabyte File System, the Amber Road has eliminated the use of RAID arrays, RAID controllers and volume management software — meaning that it's very fast and easy to use."

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  1. Looks great.. but by Pengo · · Score: 0, Redundant

    $12k for 2TB of storage is hardly a small IT shop pricetag.

    I'm not a OpenSolaris expert, but for under $600 you can build a 4 TB pooled ZFS server on relatively low cost hardware. Hell, even $1k you can get a nice rack mount with 4 1TB sata2 drives from Dell, throw opensolaris on it and your up and running.

    With that said, linux REALLY needs ZFS , and not in userspace.