Sun Microsystems StorEdge 3000 Series - Comparison of Sun Storedge 3510 FC Arrays and Sun Storedge 3511 FC Arrays; FIGURE 1-1 Sun Storedge 3510 and 3511 FC Array Front View; TABLE 1-1 Comparison of Sun Storedge 3510 and 3511 FC Array Features

1-2 Sun StorEdge 3000 Family Installation, Operation, and Service Manual • May 2004
1.1 Comparison of Sun StorEdge 3510 FC
Arrays and Sun StorEdge 3511 FC Arrays
FIGURE 1-1 Sun StorEdge 3510 and 3511 FC Array Front View
Before installing and configuring your array, please review the key differences
between the Sun StorEdge 3510 FC array and the Sun StorEdge 3511 FC array with
SATA, listed in
TABLE 1-1.
Note – Although the two products are very similar and have the same general
functionality, the configurations have important differences.
TABLE 1-1 Comparison of Sun StorEdge 3510 and 3511 FC Array Features
Sun StorEdge 3510 FC Array Sun StorEdge 3511 FC Array
Applications Best suited for production
applications where the superior
features of FC technical
characteristics and performance is a
requirement. This includes the below
online applications:
• Database
• Decision Support
• Data warehousing
• Electronic commerce
• Enterprise resource planning
• Messaging, file and print
Best suited for an inexpensive
secondary storage application where
higher capacity drives are needed which
are not mission-critical, and where
lower performance and less than 7/24
availability is an option. This includes
the below near-line applications:
• Information lifecycle management
• Content addressable storage
• Backup and restore
• Secondary SAN storage
• Near-line DAS storage
• Static reference data storage
Disks Fibre Channel disks:
36, 73, or 146 GB at 10k rpm
36 or 73 GB at 15k rpm
SATA disks:
250 GB at 7200 rpm