SATA RAIDs are an alternative for environments requiring FiberChannel SAN connectivity and large cheap storage. That's what the promoters are saying.I used the past weekend to compare multiple configurations of an Infortrend Oxygenraid system. It is also available as Advanced Unibyte Oxygenraid. Other OEM brand names may exist.
The hardware configuration tested includes 16 SATA disks (Seagate Barracuda 7200.10, 750 GB per disk). 12 were used for this tests. Large RAID reconfiguration delays slowed down the whole story.
Four filebench tests were run against each configuration.
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