Yeah... it looks like my employer is going down the same route with an EMC Isilon NAS system. We really just want high throughput for linear scans; possibly wi

Yeah... it looks like my employer is going down the same route with an EMC Isilon NAS system. We really just want high throughput for linear scans; possibly with a small amount of parallelism, which would argue for a fairly simple solution with as little cacheing as possible (ideally none whatsoever) ... but I cannot even tell (from the website & the literature that I can access) how these things are supposed to operate -- which is a worrying sign in itself. Previously, I got good performance out of a SAN using a handful of NexSan SataBeasts -- which I would have recommended to use again, if anybody had bothered to ask. :-)