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Introduction

General informations

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Results of the tests required as a part of proposal:  YES

Notes after evaluation: the tests themselves were OK, but the test architectures could be defined a bit better: The tests actually measured only performance of the FC disks (candidates obviously configured the volume in such a way that it was faster), performance of SATA volumes was not evaluated at all. Also, the winner used RAID5 as required but there was a big RAID0 volume above the 20 individual RAID5s (thus creating RAID50) which was allowed but not used in production afterwards.

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