On Sun, 23 Mar 2014, Jim Klimov wrote:
Regardless, I can not imagine why someone would want to replace 2TB
drives with 4TB drives.
Limited number of disk bays? ;)
That would be the only reason. The cost of replacing existing 2TB
drives with 4TB drives seems pretty high. Performace would only go
down, and if the physical block size increases, then storage
efficiency would decrease. Disk bays are not necessarily all that
expensive as long as there is a place nearby to put it.
An existing disk chassis could be replaced with one which supports
more slots and the existing drives re-used as long as they are
physically compatible with the new chassis.
Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
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GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
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