Re:Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud storage
by mmt on Wednesday September 02, 2009 @08:05PM
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From experience, I can safely say that luck has nothing to do with it. LSI MegaSASes support more than 240, so it doesn't affect my math at all.
Similarly, from "at home" experience, I can also safely say that luck factors prominently in the vagaries of SATA port multipliers. The reason I even made the attempt was a lower price per port. This is why I'm so started that a solution based on them would end up being more expensive than a SAS-based one.
Of course, if the camel of performance gets its nose into the tent of ones requirements, it has to be the SAS way or the highway.
Similarly, from "at home" experience, I can also safely say that luck factors prominently in the vagaries of SATA port multipliers. The reason I even made the attempt was a lower price per port. This is why I'm so started that a solution based on them would end up being more expensive than a SAS-based one.
Of course, if the camel of performance gets its nose into the tent of ones requirements, it has to be the SAS way or the highway.