On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 13:41 +0000, Matthew wrote: > On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Peter Koczan wrote: > > One of the other things I was interested in was the "hidden costs" of > > a SAN. For instance, we'd probably have to invest in more UPS capacity > > to protect our data. Are there any other similar points that people > > don't initially consider regarding a SAN? > > You may well find that the hardware required in each machine to access the > SAN (fibrechannel cards, etc) and switches are way more expensive than > just shoving a cheap hard drive in each machine. Hard drives are > mass-produced, and remarkably cheap for what they do. SAN hardware is > specialist, and expensive. Can be, but may I point to a recent posting on Beowulf ml [1] and the article it references [2] Showing that the per node price of SDR IB has come down far enough to in some cases compete with GigE. ymmv, but I'm in the planning phase for a massive storage system and it's something we're looking into. Just thought I'd share Success! ./C [1] http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.beowulf.org/archive/2008-January/020538.html [2] http://www.clustermonkey.net/content/view/222/1/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
