Am 16.02.2008 um 17:56 schrieb Dag-Erling Smørgrav: > Thomas Hurst <tom.hurst_at_clara.net> writes: >> Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav (des_at_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) 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 -- Rainer Duffner CISSP, LPI, MCSE rainer_at_ultra-secure.deReceived on Sat Feb 16 2008 - 16:45:09 UTC
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