>But this surely has little if anything to do with the size of the physical >drives used by the makers of storage subsystems.
If storage array makers are using 1TB drives vs the 73GB that was typical just a couple years back, this should translate to many fewer drives. Which should translate to lower power consumption and heat generation, which was the original point I was trying to make. And John Eells can tell us if going to the 2.5 in form factor is in their plans. If so, this could indicate that power consumption will be ever further reduced. One thing that would be interesting to learn: how much of a typical data center's power consumption is attributable to storage subsystems, including RAID and Virtual Tape? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
