From owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 17 16:30:37 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 761F616A4E6 for ; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 16:30:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matthias.andree@gmx.de) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.de [213.165.64.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A99DD43D6D for ; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 16:30:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from matthias.andree@gmx.de) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 17 Jul 2006 16:30:24 -0000 Received: from p509119BF.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (EHLO m2a2.dyndns.org) [80.145.25.191] by mail.gmx.net (mp040) with SMTP; 17 Jul 2006 18:30:24 +0200 X-Authenticated: #428038 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by merlin.emma.line.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE5F7200F27; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 18:30:22 +0200 (CEST) Received: from m2a2.dyndns.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (m2a2.dyndns.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 09932-20; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 18:30:22 +0200 (CEST) Received: by merlin.emma.line.org (Postfix, from userid 500) id 9318A200F92; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 18:30:22 +0200 (CEST) From: Matthias Andree To: Tom Samplonius In-Reply-To: <20060716205031.K27056@mgmt.uniserve.ca> (Tom Samplonius's message of "Sun, 16 Jul 2006 20:55:40 -0700 (PDT)") References: <813466C3-8E34-4886-9689-044086F4F64C@dragondata.com> <7376DAAA-4C67-495F-A532-5A86C47E8F75@FreeBSD.org> <7579f7fb0607140806q1cf1baf4q24a6f2ec14118a54@mail.gmail.com> <3B9652BC-027D-4FC5-A2E9-3CD7AF12DC4B@freebsd.org> <7579f7fb0607161131h19a995ffjeceda64feb4d7a7a@mail.gmail.com> <6BF5AB95-9A4D-4ABD-9717-6623F274CFCD@freebsd.org> <20060716205031.K27056@mgmt.uniserve.ca> X-PGP-Key: http://home.pages.de/~mandree/keys/GPGKEY.asc Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 18:30:22 +0200 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at emma.line.org X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org, Ade Lovett Subject: Re: Current favorite FC HBA? X-BeenThere: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: SCSI subsystem List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 16:30:37 -0000 Tom Samplonius 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