Two reasons: Do a single node test of large file read/write without having to purchase additional hard rives at the moment.
Benefit from I/O Panasas delivers that I can't get from local drives... Keeping the data local, for easier loading. On 5/25/10 11:58 AM, "Ryan King" <r...@twitter.com> wrote: > On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 9:06 AM, Fernanda Foertter > <fernanda.foert...@pic.com> wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> >> So we have Panasas (http://www.panasas.com), and want to avoid local drives. >> Because panasas has its own redundancy and cache, Can I set RF=1? If so, >> can you think of any reason why we shouldn¹t use panasas? > > I don't see why you'd us panasas and cassandra together. They take > very different approaches to the problem. > > -ryan
