In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Nick Holland wrote: > > Dumping the data from one disk to another is fine and dandy when you > are talking about your 40G disk on your home or desktop computer, > the fact that you are down for a few hours is no big deal. But what > about a server? I don't care how fast your disks are, moving 300G of > data to a new disk system is a lot of slow work.
This I usually quantify as: we double storage capacity every 18 months, unfortunately, we double transfer speed (actual access/read/write speed) only much slower than that. Deal with it. --Toby.
