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To: David A. Lethe who wrote (18343)	11/4/1997 1:19:00 AM
From: Scott C. Lemon	Read Replies (1) of 42771

Hello David, > OK Scott, this one hurts :) I know! ;-) I too have to deal with these lost souls that talk about the advantages of Fibre Channel ... talk ... that's what it is! > First IBM SSA has been shipping since 94, and has sold almost 2 > petabytes. Seagate, hasn't even frozen the firmware in their disk > drives yet!!! I have almost 200GB of SSA storage at Novell today ... I have about 25GB on one of my servers! I have yet to see any Fibre around yet! I even have one subsystem 45 feet from the server ... with pencil thin cables! > SSA generally outperforms fiber, and is cheaper. SSA can be > hot-swapped, and has built-in redundancy. As it is a serial loop > technology, I can do concurrent non-arbitrated reads and writes to > disks. Just try doing that with SCSI or Fiber. I agree ... I have been working with many of the SSA vendors for several years now ... we have worked on SNMP instrumentation of SSA. > Several vendors even ship SSA subsystems and controllers with > Novell-certified SSA drivers. I can sustain nearly 60 MB/sec per > SSA controller in a Compaq. Yep! Try doing that with NT! But I do have to wonder about Compaq ... they have fallen on the Fibre band wagon ... they are touting the benefits of Fibre Channel ... I'm wondering who is kissing up to who ... I have lost some faith in Compaq over the years ... if it wasn't for someone's vision to buy Tandem I would have really wondered about their future. They sell alot of product, but they are moving away from the "best" technology towards "hype" technology. I'm afraid that another company is going to start making inroads by offering superior technologies. > David Scott C. Lemon

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