On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Mohler, Jeff wrote:
Like anything else, the sizing you are looking at for HDs can affect performance depending on what your application and read/write requirements/habits are. Its inaccurate to state "performance problems" as a global issue as "performance" means different things to different customers.
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. Other times I just want massive storage and don't care that much about performance. The new 72GB drives seem to fit the bill. :) I have a couple of shelves on order to hold things like gigantic RADIUS accounting logs that are written once to disk, read back weekly or monthly for reporting, and generally not needed until we need to track down abuse cases. I figure we should get about 330GB of usable space per shelf. They will certainly be fast enough for our application.