On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 07:12:39PM +1100, Russell Coker wrote: > > On Thu, 21 Nov 2013 18:30:49 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > I suggest that anyone in the future needing fast random write IOPS is > > going to move those workloads to SSD, which is steadily increasing in > > capacity. And I suggest anyone building arrays with 10-20TB drives > > isn't in need of fast random write IOPS. > > Traditionally SCSI/SAS disks have tended to be a lot smaller than IDE/SATA > disks. Now Dell has just started offering 2TB SAS disks while the largest SATA > disks that they sell (In Australia on PowerEdge T110 servers at least) are > also 2TB. Presumably RAID recovery time was one factor that made > manufacturers not bother with making larger SCSI/SAS disks in the past. > Dell has been selling 4TB SAS disks for a long time already.. one year, or something like that. -- Pasi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
