[Gllug] Large raid 5/5+0 setup

[Karanbir Singh]

On 06/18/2009 05:49 PM, Peter Corlett wrote:
> Fast 300GB disks are readily available, and not much more expensive than the
> 147GB units. For example, a 300GB 15,000RPM Fujitsu drive is £192.48, or if
> you prefer Seagate, that's £245.30. So that's "only" £12k for 15TB of the
> fastest hard drives that money can buy.
...
> (All prices pulled from scan.co.uk, so are retail prices for one-offs.)

Most enterprise kit comes with a much better deal on support and 
turnaround than the likes of scan.co.uk - and I would be very surprised 
if you can get a large vendor ( bluearc, lets say ) to sell you kit at 
prices that compete with scan.co.uk ( even if its the exact same disk ).

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