Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 18:16:25 +0100 From: Rainer Duffner <rainer@ultra-secure.de> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.0-RC2 Available Message-ID: <AED55CCA-9C07-464B-A78B-E685BB126B0D@ultra-secure.de> 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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Am 16.02.2008 um 17:56 schrieb Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav: > 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. > > 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. > I think you are unfair. In some servers (Blades come to mind - but they're not the only ones) =20= you just can't plug in a 500 GB WD SATA2 disk. You've got to use either SAS or SAN-boot. Guess which one is better support by FreeBSD? cheers, Rainer --=20 Rainer Duffner CISSP, LPI, MCSE rainer@ultra-secure.de
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