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Date:      Mon, 17 Jul 2006 18:30:22 +0200
From:      Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>
To:        Tom Samplonius <tom@uniserve.com>
Cc:        freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org, Ade Lovett <ade@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Current favorite FC HBA?
Message-ID:  <m3hd1gdwip.fsf@merlin.emma.line.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060716205031.K27056@mgmt.uniserve.ca> (Tom Samplonius's message of "Sun, 16 Jul 2006 20:55:40 -0700 (PDT)")
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Tom Samplonius <tom@uniserve.com> writes:

>   SAS and 2.5in make a lot of sense for enterprise use.  Storage density
> has increased a lot, so the extra density can be used to put more
> spindles in less space.  Why use a 3.5in 10K 146GB disk, when you can
> use a 2.5in 10K 146GB disk? Imagine the space savings alone.

Not to mention many 15000/min drives have been using smaller disks than
their 10000/min counterparts anyways.

-- 
Matthias Andree



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