----- Original Message ----- > On Tue, October 5, 2010 17:20, Richard Elling wrote: > > On Oct 5, 2010, at 2:06 PM, Michael DeMan wrote: > >> > >> On Oct 5, 2010, at 1:47 PM, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: > > >>> Well, here it's about 60% up and for 150 drives, that makes a wee > >>> difference... > > >> Understood on 1.6 times cost, especially for quantity 150 drives. > > > One service outage will consume far more in person-hours and > > downtime than > > this little bit of money. Penny-wise == Pound-foolish? > > That looks to be true, yes (going back to the actual prices, 150 > drives would cost $6000 extra for the enterprise versions).
I somehow doubt a service outage will consume that lot. The drives will be carefully distributed in smallish RAIDz2 VDEVs on two separate large systems and one small one, and all of them are dedicated for backup targets (Bacula using their drives for storing backup). We already have a 50TB setup on mostly Green drives, and although I now know that's a terrible idea, it's been running stably for about a year with quite constant load. So really, I beleive the chance for non-TLER drives to mess this up badly is a minor one (and perhaps more importantly, so does my boss). Vennlige hilsener / Best regards roy -- Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk (+47) 97542685 r...@karlsbakk.net http://blogg.karlsbakk.net/ -- I all pedagogikk er det essensielt at pensum presenteres intelligibelt. Det er et elementært imperativ for alle pedagoger å unngå eksessiv anvendelse av idiomer med fremmed opprinnelse. I de fleste tilfeller eksisterer adekvate og relevante synonymer på norsk. _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
