On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Richard Elling wrote: > From a space perspective, I can put a TByte on my desktop today. Death > of the low-end array is assured by bigger drives.
I respectfully disagree. I think there will always be a need for low-end arrays, regardless of the size of the individual disks. I like to keep my OS and data/apps separate (on separate drives preferably)--and I doubt I'm alone. Many of todays smaller servers come with only two disks, which is fine for mirroring root and swap, but the only place to put one's data is on an external array. There are many situations where low-end storage (in terms of numbers of spindles) would be very useful, hence my blog entry a while ago wishing that Sun would produce a 1U, 8-drive SAS array at an affordable price (at least one company has such a product, but I want to buy only Sun HW). -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc. Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URL: http://www.rite-group.com/rich _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
