On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 10:56 AM, Bob Friesenhahn < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > I doubt that anyone will successfully argue that SAS drives offer the > best IOPS/$ value as long as space, power, and reliability factors may > be ignored. However, these sort of enterprise devices exist in order > to allow enterprises to meet critical business demands which are > otherwise not possible to be met. > > There are situations where space, power, and cooling are limited and > the cost of the equipment is less of an issue since the space, power, > and cooling cost more than the equipment. > > Bob > It's called USABLE IOPS/$. You can throw 500 drives at a workload, if you're attempting to access lots of small files in random ways, it won't make a lick of difference. --Tim
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