Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 14:47:39 -0500 From: "Nikolas Britton" <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <chad@shire.net> Subject: Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ? Message-ID: <ef10de9a0606221247q42b52d3bka9d1c765e9f25b6c@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20060622151752.A1114@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20060622174220.AEB6D44696@mx1.FreeBSD.org> <20060622145130.I1114@ganymede.hub.org> <86B8B6FA-1099-4819-A63E-873174591CB0@shire.net> <20060622151752.A1114@ganymede.hub.org>
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On 6/22/06, Marc G. Fournier <scrappy@hub.org> wrote: > On Thu, 22 Jun 2006, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: > > > > > On Jun 22, 2006, at 11:55 AM, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > > >> not only do I like the SAS drives (4 in a 1U rack so that I can use > >> RAID1+0) > > > > What drives are they? There is nothing in the SAS spec about drive > > dimensions so it seems you like your particular models of SAS drives > > Ack, I thought it was a standard size thing, never even thought about it > ... I ordered the drives from HP, with the server ... > > From: > > http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/proliantstorage/drives-enclosures/index.html?jumpid=ex_hphqglobal_wwentsem/Proliant > > I'm guessing what I got were the 2.5" form factor, vs the 3.5" ... and > based on that same page, looks like I can get 2.5" SATA also ... i thought > the 'small size' was a SAS feature :( > The 74GB 2.5" SAS drives are $700 each, $9.50 per gigabyte! The array I just finished building was 2400GB, If I'd used your drives the drives alone would have cost $23,000... holy shit man. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822116156 -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com/
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