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Timo Schoeler
timo.schoeler at riscworks.net
Sat Feb 16 17:20:16 UTC 2008
Thus Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des at des.no> spake Sat, 16 Feb 2008 17:56:58
+0100:
> Thomas Hurst <tom.hurst at clara.net> writes:
> > Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav (des at des.no) writes:
> > > Not cost-effective? What is the "street price" of 16 GB disk
> > > space these days? About the same as a couple of Big Macs?
> > That's roughly half of a common 36G SCSI drive, and still a fairly
> > significant chunk of a 73G one. Granted, you probably don't get all
> > that many high-memory systems with just one or two dinky disks.
>
> Don't blame me for your decision to use the most expensive type of
> storage available, especially when it has been conclusively shown that
> expensive server-grade disks are no more reliable than cheap consumer-
> grade disks.
Hm. During the last ten years I for myself installed about 1,200 SCSI
HDs at customers (plus those that were installed by EMC in storage
systems at customers' sites) and at least thrice the amount IDE/SATA
HDs.
There were hundreds (!) of defects of the consumer grade IDE/SATA HDs,
beautifully spreading over the whole spectrum of brands and models
used.
Number of SCSI drives dead: Nine.
I tend to believe there *is* a reason for companies to build
SCSI/SAS-only products, be it 'Workstations', Workstations, Servers or
storage systems.
YMMV, though.
> DES
> --
> Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des at des.no
Timo
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