You may want to have a look at Atto's Diamond arrays as well.  We've had
good luck with them, and they are reasonably priced.

-Lloyd


On Fri, 23 May 2003 09:26:22 -0400
"Talafous, John G." <Talafous AT TIMKEN DOT COM> wrote:

> We too are considering a mass expansion of our storage pools to
> implement Disk to Disk backup via TSM. The reason is to enhance recovery
> times. The Nexsan ATABeast is under consideration.  We currently have
> about 40TB backed up to TSM storage pools. I am thinking of bringing in
> MANY TB of ATABeast so that we can discontinue migration to tape. I am
> curious as to what happens internally in TSM when you drive your storage
> pool utilization to, say, 80% and hold it there?  Are there any
> performance penalties?  Any cautions? Any real world experience?  How
> much ATA should I consider?
>
> TIA,
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