| Scott Lurndal 2007-12-31, 7:12 pm |
| "Eric Gisin" <gisin@uniserve.com> writes:
>"David Lesher" <wb8foz@panix.com> wrote in message news:fkju66$r1$1@reader1.panix.com...
>This certainly is one of the industries stupidest ideas.
If space were the only consideration in "server class" drives,
your statement may be not completely egregious. As it happens,
you've not a clue what's important to the market segment for which
these drives are intended.
>
[snip capacity calculations]
>You don't get higher density (GB per frontal area),
>you don't get lower power over 4-5 platter 10K drives,
>the only benefit is more IO/s because you have more actuators.
What you get is enhanced seek and xfer times and large volumes of random
I/O requests; just the thing for SAN farms, virtualized storage
subsystems, NAS subsystems and database servers; albeit pretty much valueless to
the typical windows user.
scott
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