On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, Rick Moen wrote: .. > > I have yet to see a bank or financial institution run their OLTP > > application on a bunch of 3ware Escalades. When I see that happening, I'll > > eat my words. :) > > Good point. > > I've seen the things used effectively in racks of Web servers where > things are a lot less mission-critical.
The RAIDZONE OpenNAS storage appliances (which compete with NetApp) use IDE drives inside. NetApp also has an entry-level appliance which uses IDE. So obviously, for MANY things, IDE is good enough. (but then the RAIDZONE appliance costs $20k or so.. so it doesn't exactly qualify as entry-level) --- Orlando Andico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mosaic Communications, Inc. _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
