Ideas Top Performers SPC-2 SPC-2 MBPS Rank Product SPC-2 MBPS ASU Capacity (GB) $/MBPS Data Protection Date 1 HP StorageWorks XP24000 Disk Array 8,725 18,401.39 187.45 Mirroring 8-Sep-08 2 Hitachi Data Systems USP V 8,725 18,401.39 187.49 Mirroring 8-Sep-08 3 IBM System Storage DS8700 7,247 32,641.75 277.22 RAID5 30-Nov-09 4 IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller 4.2 7,084 101,155.07 463.66 RAID5 12-Jul-07 5 SUN Storage 6780 Array (8 Gb, RAID-5) 5,634 16,383.19 44.88 RAID5 28-Oct-09 6 IBM System Storage DS5300 (8Gb, RAID-5) 5,634 16,383.19 67.75 RAID5 21-Oct-09 7 SUN Storage 6780 Array (8 Gb, RAID-6) 5,544 14,042.73 45.61 RAID6 28-Oct-09 8 IBM System Storage DS5300 (8Gb, RAID-6) 5,544 14,042.73 68.85 RAID6 21-Oct-09 9 Sun Storage 6780 Array (RAID-5) 4,818 16,383.19 53.61 RAID5 3-Feb-09 10 IBM System Storage DS5300 (RAID-5) 4,818 16,383.19 93.80 RAID5 25-Sep-08 $/MBPS Rank Product SPC-2 MBPS ASU Capacity (GB) $/MBPS Data Protection Date 1 Sun Storage J4200 Array 549 11,995.30 22.92 Other 10-Jul-08 2 Sun Storage J4400 Array 887 23,965.92 25.63 Other 15-Aug-08 3 Sun StorageTek 2530 Array (RAID-5) 672 1,451.70 26.15 RAID5 16-Aug-07 4 Sun StorageTek 2530 Array (Mirroring) 664 854.70 26.48 Mirroring 16-Aug-07 5 Xiotech Emprise 5000 (146GB disk drives) 646 1,073.74 32.25 Mirroring 8-Apr-08 6 IBM System Storage DS3400 731 1,165.93 34.36 RAID5 27-Feb-08 7 Sun StorageTek 2540 Array (RAID5) 736 2,177.55 37.32 RAID5 10-Apr-07 8 Sun StorageTek 2540 Array (Mirroring) 730 1,282.05 37.60 Mirroring 10-Apr-07 9 Sun Storage 6180 Array (RAID-5) 1,245 3,504.69 42.53 RAID5 9-Oct-09 10 Sun StorageTek 2510 Array (iSCSI) 237 715.11 43.42 RAID5 16-May-08

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