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Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 09:54:45 +0100
From: "Patrick M. Hausen" <hausen@punkt.de>
To: Michal <michal@ionic.co.uk>
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Hi, all,

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 11:45:25PM +0000, Michal wrote:
> I am thinking a cheap solution but one that
> has IO throughput, redundancy and is easy to manange and expand across
> multiple nodes

Fast, reliable, cheap. Pick any two.

IMHO this is just as true today as it was twenty years ago.

Best regards,
Patrick
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