Adaptec iSA1500 Storage Array

Like the curate’s egg, Adaptec’s iSA1500 Storage Array is good in parts. The good parts are the terabyte of storage space available on this iSCSI appliance which can be carved up and shared across multiple servers connected to a standard Ethernet network. Added to which there’s hardware-based RAID protection, the ability to take multiple point-in-time snapshots and assign extra capacity on the fly. The not so good parts, however, are the complexity of the solution and the extra hardware needed in order to match the performance provided by a conventional Fibre Channel SAN.