On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 12:50:16PM -0500, Jim C. Nasby wrote:
Yes, but some dedicated storage devices actually provide good performance with RAID5. Most simpler solutions give pretty abysmal write performance.
dedicated storage device != SAN != NAS. You can get good performance in a dedicated direct-attach device without paying for the SAN/NAS infrastructure if you don't need it; you don't have to go right from EMC to PERC with nothing in the middle.
Mike Stone
