----- Original Message ----- From: Thomas Leavitt thomas.leavitt@clickrebates.com To: Toasters toasters@mathworks.com Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2000 1:13 PM Subject: Concerned about quick EOL for 9 gig drives
However, I'm concerned at the relative speed with which the 9 gigabyte drives were EOL'd and then became unavailable for sale. Is there a
scheduled
time-frame for EOL on the 18 gigabyte drives? Should I specify 36 gigabyte drives, just to be safe and have a reasonable time frame for continued acquisition of the same type of drive?
I would if I were you.
However, please remember that you do *not* need to have all the same size drives on your filer. Someone has recently noted that there is a performance penalty for having multiple size drives in the same RAID group, although personally I don't think it is a severe penalty in typical configurations. But you can always put drives of one size in their own RAID group.
Bruce