Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 18:20:17 +0100 From: Timo Schoeler <timo.schoeler@riscworks.net> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.0-RC2 Available Message-ID: <20080216182017.734f619c.timo.schoeler@riscworks.net> In-Reply-To: <86tzk8vnz9.fsf@ds4.des.no> References: <rea-fbsd@codelabs.ru> <HNc5KTwAOlChZd/l%2BN1vPPiVFRE@3SQePivZkcJXerr/O1l2SLu1NoU> <E1JPD3j-0000wk-6u@clue.co.za> <msJHdNXRu5fGqwNIwehl3Qsvvmg@L/B2HsSNkA3O1ZRIaMxnTL95W%2Bo> <86r6fdx0tf.fsf@ds4.des.no> <20080216113721.GA55702@voi.aagh.net> <86tzk8vnz9.fsf@ds4.des.no>
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Thus Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav <des@des.no> spake Sat, 16 Feb 2008 17:56:58 +0100: > Thomas Hurst <tom.hurst@clara.net> writes: > > Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav (des@des.no) writes: > > > Not cost-effective? What is the "street price" of 16 GB disk > > > space these days? About the same as a couple of Big Macs? > > That's roughly half of a common 36G SCSI drive, and still a fairly > > significant chunk of a 73G one. Granted, you probably don't get all > > that many high-memory systems with just one or two dinky disks. >=20 > Don't blame me for your decision to use the most expensive type of > storage available, especially when it has been conclusively shown that > expensive server-grade disks are no more reliable than cheap consumer- > grade disks. Hm. During the last ten years I for myself installed about 1,200 SCSI HDs at customers (plus those that were installed by EMC in storage systems at customers' sites) and at least thrice the amount IDE/SATA HDs. There were hundreds (!) of defects of the consumer grade IDE/SATA HDs, beautifully spreading over the whole spectrum of brands and models used. Number of SCSI drives dead: Nine. I tend to believe there *is* a reason for companies to build SCSI/SAS-only products, be it 'Workstations', Workstations, Servers or storage systems. YMMV, though. =20 > DES > --=20 > Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no Timo
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