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Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 15:25:07 +0100
From: "Joao Barros" <joao.barros@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?
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On 6/29/06, David Robillard <david.robillard@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > The other selling point for me on HP was the 2.5" SAS drives ... our new
> > servers have 4x72G SAS drives in a 1U space, which means I can do RAID1+0
>
> SAS drives are coming in strong. It's what all new machines will have
> in the server market in upcoming years. Just take a look at new
> machines from Sun, IBM and HP, they all switched to SAS drives.
> They're great, really. But so far I've yet to see 15K rpm in 2,5" SAS
> form factor.

 I'm talking out of my mouth here but maybe the extra storage density
used in SAS compensates for the lack of 15K rpm.

-- 
Joao Barros