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Older Sun SAN

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I am looking at getting an older SAN for home to play with and to use. I found an older SUN SAN that has 9gb drives in it now that are half height. I was wondering, can I just replace those with newer 1" drives and it will still work? I hope so. Ideas? Suggestion? SAN for sale?
 
Originally posted by: nweaver
really, a san with some 9GB drives is plenty for practice/learning.
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What kind of geek are you? :beer:😛

Older drives also provide a better opportunity to practice recovery methods if one fails. 😛

And a chance to practice with sleuthkit/autopsy. :evil:
 
eh...I don't understand what drive size has to do with boot time, not to mention the obvious...run hardware and OS that don't require reboots very often 😉
 
Originally posted by: nweaver
eh...I don't understand what drive size has to do with boot time, not to mention the obvious...run hardware and OS that don't require reboots very often 😉
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Hence the Sun hardware. 😀
 
Originally posted by: nweaver
eh...I don't understand what drive size has to do with boot time, not to mention the obvious...run hardware and OS that don't require reboots very often 😉
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Are you kidding me? Those 9GB drives are probally older then I am. They are 7.2K and I am sure have a max STR of 5MB/sec/drive. I require much more then that.
 
boot times, I chuckled.
Uptime on the busiest server I administer = 245 days, since the last time I cleaned it🙂
 
Originally posted by: skyking
boot times, I chuckled.
Uptime on the busiest server I administer = 245 days, since the last time I cleaned it🙂
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heh, I still think I've got the record...

two core cisco switches that haven't been rebooted since 1/01/2000. 6+ years.

But on the SAN perspective, you almost NEVER have to boot those things. They're made to run constantly no matter what hardware/software you swap out.
 
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