For storage, our test system came with four 72.8-GB/10,000-rpm drive modules that snapped in place in minutes. I found the physical build quite simple, and the kit came with rails and templates for racking the main drive subsystem and FC switch. I took the time to read the simplified instructions to envision how difficult it would be for an FC newbie going through the same process for the first time. The test system arrived at NWC's Green Bay, Wis., Real-World Labs® in the form of an immaculately packaged cardboard monolith and though the setup took somewhat longer than the advertised 35 minutes, the SAN went together in a little over an hour-what I'd consider record time for an FC installation.
For this test, I chose to use our faithful old Compaq DL-580 server with four 800-MHz processors, 1 GB of memory and a fresh build of Windows Server 2003.
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