David Lum <david....@nwea.org> wrote on 01/05/2009 09:14:08 AM: > Until you see the price tag for a SAN HDD that needs replaced. > At least for the SAN we have here as the price per GB is lousy > compared to standard SAS drives.
Ouch - yeah, there is new technology out there - EMC, IBM, Hitachi - for quite a few workloads. Check out the performance numbers for iSCSI SAN's like Equallogic running SATA - there are articles with benchmarks out there - SATA gets allot of badmouthing, but if you pay attention it's usually from vendors trying to sell higher priced SAS :) I mean for some loads there are legitimate needs for the big iron or SAS or FC drives, but I have a sneaking suspicion they are in the minority. Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government "The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it." - P. B. Medawar ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
