On Fri, Apr 17 at 20:07, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
On Fri, 17 Apr 2009, Richard Elling wrote:
Brief specifications:
SATA interface
Thoughts?
SATA is so "yesterday". It represents "in the box" thinking.
While SATA itself has been around for a while, and using it to plug in
a single 1.5TB or whatever rotating drive is standard in-the-box
thinking, using SATA in new ways (DIMM form factor or whatever) allows
Sun (and others) to leverage a lot of work by other companies into new
and interesting directions.
The protocol is generally sound and the interface is reasonably easy
to build, and perhaps more importantly, an IT manager can comprehend
the merits of the design and say "yes I'll pay money for this."
If you think *too* outside the box all the time, you'll need to
stretch your one sale pretty far to keep food on the table. Seems
like Sun is striking a decent balance to me.
--eric
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Eric D. Mudama
edmud...@mail.bounceswoosh.org
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