On Wed, September 27, 2006 3:53 pm, Bill Hacker wrote: > OTOH, we have decided to buy no more 3.5" HDD *anyway*. > > 2.5" are now large enough, fast enough, and reasonably well priced enough > to allow us to put the redundant arrays into 1U, and on less power, > that we now need a 2U to hold, power, and cool. > > This isn't just 'green' awareness - there is a largish $$ jump in rack > rental per UPS power budget 'chunk', and all our gear is > upstream b/w-limited anyway, not HDD speed/capacity limited.
Along the same lines, I'm looking forward to the point where RAM is cheap enough that you can create a multi-gigabyte disk from it. If there's a battery backup, it'd be a darn fast/cool/light 'disk'. Hitachi, I think it is, has 32G of flash available now.
