What Id like to see is a SATA or FATA [Fibre Attached Technology Adapted] type drive technology, Schulz says. I would hope and expect they will do that soon.
Last month, Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) became the first storage system vendor to offer FATA drives on its EVA midrange systems. FATA is a hybrid disk technology that combines Fibre Channel connection to SATA drives. No other system vendors have announced plans to follow HPs FATA lead, but EMC and IBM offer SATA drives.
Pricing for the Thunder 9585V ranges from $100,000 with 1 TByte of capacity to $300,000 for a 10-TByte version.
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