8 Jan
2001
8 Jan
'01
4:25 p.m.
2001-01-08-02:46:59 Brian Tao:
Sometimes I wish there was a 30-drive, 4U tall back-to-back disk shelf of 15000 rpm 18GB drives I could attach to a Netapp.
The need...for speed!
Other times I just want massive storage and don't care that much about performance.
But, presumably, you still care about amazing reliability, effortless manageability, snapshots, or some other unique attribute of the NetApp; unless one or more of 'em are important, it seems to me like the way to go would be to get handful of cheap PC chassis', a short stack of cheap EIDE RAID controllers, and a large pile of the $250/each 80GB EIDE drives.
-Bennett