Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 11:59:35 -0400 From: "David Robillard" <david.robillard@gmail.com> To: "FreeBSD Questions Mailing List" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Cc: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>, Joao Barros <joao.barros@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ? Message-ID: <226ae0c60606290859p1ec5964frc8b8c2470a1f53c4@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <226ae0c60606290741l660729e5hb1649b2f0aac7ea1@mail.gmail.com> References: <226ae0c60606290640p5855b367l2d8d894bff3e0b86@mail.gmail.com> <70e8236f0606290725y48f1cbffi3d9f969ae3db505f@mail.gmail.com> <226ae0c60606290741l660729e5hb1649b2f0aac7ea1@mail.gmail.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On 6/29/06, David Robillard <david.robillard@gmail.com> wrote: > On 6/29/06, Joao Barros <joao.barros@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > 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. Correction, it looks like the 15K rpm SAS drives finally exist. Hitachi has some: http://www.hitachigst.com/portal/site/en/menuitem.191a33649dd96d1d92b86b31bac4f0a0/ Cheers! David -- David Robillard david.robillard@gmail.com Montreal: +1 514 966 0122
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?226ae0c60606290859p1ec5964frc8b8c2470a1f53c4>