On Nov 17, 2010, at 10:34 AM, Luke S Crawford wrote: > Another downside to blades (and the reason why I now plan more carefully > and avoid the 2 in 1u servers) is local disk I/O. Blades, due to their > size, have fewer slots for local disk, either that or they only support 2.5" > disk vs 3.5" disk. (for some use cases 2.5" makes sense... for example, > if you have expensive power and need the iops you'd get by just running > a bunch of 500GiB disks rather than fewer larger disks. For me, though, > the 2.5x premium on 2.5" disks isn't worth saving the three or four > watts.)
We've mostly switched to using 2.5" SSDs for all of our heavy I/O use. Which then puts a constraint on disk capacity, but they're 2.5" and fast. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
