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I wish cheap terabyte hard drives were useable....

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In Reply to: RE: shocking... posted by Matts_ on October 28, 2009 at 15:06:16

We do run backups to cheap drives and rotate them offsite, but our servers are a couple years old or older and use SCSI hot swappable RAID arrays. You didn't have the performance on cheap drives at that time. Now the SCSI are becoming obsolete and drives are cheaper if you can find NOS drives. I just got some 73G, 10K U320 drives for $115.

However, even with cheaper driver, rack mount server with ECC memory and RAID arrays aren't alot cheaper though they'll have twice the memory and twice the storage. We need to replace the db server beofr elong and that's a $4K cost if you buy smart from from Dell.

-Rod

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