I didn't think any of the manufacturers are shipping native serial ATA disks yet. I think all the disks have hardware to convert from IDE to serial ATA, thus there is no real advantage yet, just greater expense.
Paul Mahler mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 650.207.9855 fax: 877.408.0105 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Adthrawn Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2004 4:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Now: Small Biz Robust Asterisk Solution - SBRAS > Tilghman Lesher wrote: >> On Sunday 18 January 2004 12:01, Adthrawn wrote: >> >>> Spell out RAID - Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks. Bingo. >> >> >> That's "Independent Disks". It's the independence of each spindle >> that >> is valued, not the cost proposition. If one spindle goes, it's not >> all >> of your data which goes with it. Consider that many (most?) SCSI >> disks >> aren't inexpensive. >> > > The original meaning of the acronym was "Inexpensive," IIRC. It was > later changed to allow either meaning of the word. I just checked; it > is "inexpensive" in both of my CS architecture textbooks. > > A nit, I know, but I don't want Adthrawn to get a complex :-) :-p The whole point of RAID originally (and I'm talking nineties RAID) was to give small businesses the chance at having low-cost centralized mass storage. One volume made from multiple disks, with the unique ability to keep either stripped or mirrored backups - fantastic. And it came as a free add-on for Apple Servers (yippee!). SCSI disks are cheap if the work you're doing is expensive. :-) Ad. PS SCSI is sooo yesterday. We're onto Serial ATA, and lot's of it. We're just about to buy a 3.5TB SAN RAID array which is built from Serial ATA's. And it's fast. Plus damn cheap. And Apple of course :-) _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
