On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 12:01 AM, Edward Ned Harvey <solar...@nedharvey.com> wrote: > Ok guys, can we please kill this thread about commodity versus enterprise > hardware? > > Let's agree on one thing: Some people believe commodity hardware is just as > good as enterprise systems. Other people do not believe that. In both > situations, the conclusion has been reached based on personal experience. (I > am one of the latter, and I have specific stories if anybody's interested > off-list.) > > Even if one of them isn't as reliable as the other, it can still be > acceptable in farms, where some number of failed systems is acceptable. > >
+1. The only thing that SuperMicro is not what you hurry to call "commodity": http://www.supermicro.com/products/nfo/files/SAS2/SAS2_1004.pdf — these boxes works just fine. YMMV though. Cheers. -- Kind regards, BM Things, that are stupid at the beginning, rarely ends up wisely. _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
