## Henrique de Moraes Holschuh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > So, now we would like Russel to explain why he does not like SAN. > He probably doesn't advocate using SAN instead of local disks if you do not > have a good reason to use SAN. If that's it, I *do* agree with him. Don't > use SANs just for the heck of it. Even external JBOD enclosures are a bad > idea if you don't need them.
Of course. Buying SAN for a single mailserver is not worth the money. Think of money per gigabyte and the extra trouble of managing your SAN, local disks are much easier to handle. > But not using a SAN that is already available at a datacenter where all > disks are consolidated into large redundant FC SANs, well, that would be > silly IMHO. Diskless machines are, if anything, much faster to replace > with a spare one when you need to get them serviced :) Yeah. "I need 250 GB" - "Wait a moment - there you are". That is fun. Regards, Christoph -- Spare Space -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
