Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

[David Robillard]

On 6/29/06, David Robillard <david.robillard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/29/06, Joao Barros <joao.barros at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > SAS drives are coming in strong. It's what all new machines will have
> > > in the server market in upcoming years. Just take a look at new
> > > machines from Sun, IBM and HP, they all switched to SAS drives.
> > > They're great, really. But so far I've yet to see 15K rpm in 2,5" SAS
> > > form factor.
> >
> >  I'm talking out of my mouth here but maybe the extra storage density
> > used in SAS compensates for the lack of 15K rpm.

Correction, it looks like the 15K rpm SAS drives finally exist.
Hitachi has some:
http://www.hitachigst.com/portal/site/en/menuitem.191a33649dd96d1d92b86b31bac4f0a0/

Cheers!

David

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