On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 5:39 PM, Frank Cusack <fcus...@fcusack.com> wrote:
> On January 23, 2010 5:17:16 PM -0600 Tim Cook <t...@cook.ms> wrote: > >> Smaller devices get you to raid-z3 because they cost less money. >> Therefore, you can afford to buy more of them. >> > > I sure hope you aren't ever buying for my company! :) :) > > Smaller devices cost more $/GB; ie they are more expensive. > > First off, smaller devices don't necessarily cost more $/GB, but that's not really the point. For instance, the cheapest drive per GB is a 1.5TB drive today. The third cheapest is a 1TB drive. 2TB drives aren't even in the top ten. Regardless that's a great theory when you have an unlimited budget. When you've got a home system and X amount of dollars to spend, $/GB means absolutely nothing when you need a certain number of drives to have the redundancy you require. -- --Tim
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