From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 22 20:05:38 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C1E316A49E for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2006 20:05:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0102.google.com (nz-out-0102.google.com [64.233.162.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 557CD44F98 for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2006 19:47:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id l1so570213nzf for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2006 12:47:40 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=ScEMhwGeJNxZMiHlJa0b/hGFf5AzJk37p8Pb0weBAXbAzbeyvWMZsWqkavbzzem3ng/Z4+bYNv0DObMgYo7aNtwbJSp/tavQ4PB2SNqyZ8daiUoajn3VMXK6CTOdzIekDenRzOpWnHHeeLEJHFzAGQW1npt/hA7gAZ9E1MtEuGI= Received: by 10.36.135.5 with SMTP id i5mr2527339nzd; Thu, 22 Jun 2006 12:47:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.36.182.7 with HTTP; Thu, 22 Jun 2006 12:47:39 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 14:47:39 -0500 From: "Nikolas Britton" To: "Marc G. Fournier" In-Reply-To: <20060622151752.A1114@ganymede.hub.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060622174220.AEB6D44696@mx1.FreeBSD.org> <20060622145130.I1114@ganymede.hub.org> <86B8B6FA-1099-4819-A63E-873174591CB0@shire.net> <20060622151752.A1114@ganymede.hub.org> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions Questions , "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" Subject: Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 20:05:38 -0000 On 6/22/06, Marc G. Fournier 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/