Andrew Thrift writes: > If you want something from a Tier1 the new Dell R720XD's will take 24x > 900GB SAS disks
or 12x 2TB 3.5" cheap & slow SATA disks or 12x 3TB 3.5" more expensive & slightly faster SAS disks - if you take the (cheaper) 3.5"-disk variant of the R720xd chassis. or 12x 3TB 3.5" cheap&slow SATA disks if you buy them directly rather than from Dell. (Presumably you'd have to buy Dell "hot-swap trays") -- Simon. > and have 16 cores. If you order it with a SAS6-HBA you can add up to > 8 trays of 24 x 900GB SAS disks to provide 194TB of raw space at quite > a reasonable cost.
