[ale] Large Drives [Re: XFS on Linux - Is it ready for prime time?]

[Jim Kinney]

On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 11:36 PM, Brian Pitts <brian at polibyte.com> wrote:

> On 04/22/2010 04:57 PM, Greg Clifton wrote:
> > NewEgg had 2TB for $139 after MIR this week as I recall.
> >
> > Regarding SSD, I am seeing some interest in using them for fast access
> > and more reliable storage (see Texas Memory Systems and Super Talent
> > RAID drives). Those are obviously not for the low budget buyers.
>
> It depends on what matters. For Capacity/Dollar, SSDs come up poorly.
> For IOPS/Dollar, the absolutely obliterate rotating media.
>
> If you have to buy dozens of hard drives in a fancy RAID appliance to
> get the same performance you'd get from a couple of SSDs, SSDs start to
> look at lot more economical.
>

Not to mention the power requirements of SSD are lower. And thus the cooling
is less of an issue as well. However, the data redundancy of multiple hard
drives is affordable.

>
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> Brian Pitts
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