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What are the best midrange arrays? - page 5

Rich Castagna and Phil Goodwin
About the survey

The Diogenes Labs–Storage magazine Quality Award for midrange arrays complements our Quality Award for Enterprise Arrays (click here).

The Quality Awards identify and

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recognize products that have proven their quality and reliability in actual use. It's important to note that the awards aren't based on the subjective opinion of a few individuals, but are derived from a survey of qualified Storage readers that assesses products in five main categories: sales-force competence, product features, initial quality, reliability and technical support. Our methodology incorporates statistically valid polling that eliminates market share as a factor. Indeed, our objective is to identify the most reliable product on the market regardless of vendor name, reputation or size. Products were rated on a 1.0-to-8.0 scale, where 8.0 is the most favorable possible score.

The midrange array survey was completed by 339 respondents. Respondents were allowed to evaluate more than one array if they indicated a qualification to do so. Thirty-six percent of midrange respondents evaluated only one system vs. 26% in our earlier enterprise array survey. The study's margin of error is +6% with a 95% confidence factor.

Survey products

The following midrange arrays were included in the Quality Awards survey:

  • Adaptec Inc.'s FS4500 RAID*
  • Apple Computer Inc.'s Xserve RAID*
  • Compellent Technologies' Storage Center*
  • Dell Inc.'s CX Series
  • Dot Hill System Corp.'s RIO Xtreme*
  • EMC Corp.'s Clariion CX Series
  • Hewlett-Packard Co.'s EVA series
  • Hitachi Data Systems' Thunder 9500V series
  • IBM Corp.'s FAStT/DS4000/DS6000
  • Network Appliance Inc.'s FAS200/FAS900 series
  • nStor Corp.'s NexStor 4900 F Series*
  • Silicon Graphic Inc.'s InfiniteStorage TP9500*
  • Storage Technology Corp.'s D-series and FlexLine FLA200/FLA300
  • Sun Microsystems Inc.'s StorEdge 6920
  • Xiotech Corp.'s Magnitude 3D*

    The asterisk denotes insufficient number of responses to be included in survey results.

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