accidental_Geek

I have installed several of these units and the quality has been hit or miss. If there was every a time to use the phrase "You get what you pay for" now comes to mind. I have used Hitachi Storage for close to 10 years and all other storage products from them are great... except this unit. Essentially Hitachi thought it would be a good idea to sell this unit as a FRU (field replaceable Unit) unto itself. Unfortuanately the units are put together with some very flimsy parts. Although the units come in dual controller models with redundand power and cooling, there is a single point of failure in the on-off switch as there is only one. If that switch goes you are hosed. I would scrape up the extra money and look at the HP MSA2012i or even a NetApp 2020. (The iscsi license is free in the NetApp, unlike the other add on's) Good luck!