Tegile HA2300: Software RAID...Or Not?

[parityboy]

I found this article while doing my regular check of Storage Review. What caught my eye was the specs of this unit:

Platform Configuration:

Processor: 4x Xeon E5620
DRAM Memory: 192GB
Flash Memory: 1200GB

What caught my eye is that there is no mention of a "RAID On Chip" or other such processor. Furthermore, considering the fact that a web configurator does not need 4 multi-core Xeons to run, I assume that the horsepower on tap is dedicated to RAID functionality.

Would that be a valid assumption?

 

[Nate7311]

That's typical of most SAN units. They almost all run some variation of a *NIX platform behind the scenes.

 

[HammerSandwich]

Why on earth are they using CPUs from 2010?

 

[Nate7311]

Because that's probably when their current generation controller was designed.