Re: raid 5 disaster

The real sales people will always try to move to areas where there are 
much and easy money to be made. SAN's make fantastic profits (notice how 
some of them are easily discounted 90% without a problem), and they're 
easy to sell because everybody thinks they need them.

As the price of the SAN's drop and it becomes possible to put iSCSI and 
SATA disks in them to get real, cheap disk systems, you will see the 
sales guys move to other areas (should happen within the next one to two 
years), leaving a bunch of technicians behind in their organisations who 
were forced to rubberstamp the RAID-5 configurations even though it was 
against their belief.

We will also see the vendors coming out with superior, fantastic, 
unbelievably clever new models that can do RAID-10 - and with a very 
reasonable update price attached.

Mogens


Raj Jamadagni wrote:

> Which brings up the question, how come those war stories haven't come up ... 
> or SAN manufacturers
> invoke DCMA to supress those stories? 
> 
> Raj
> --- Carel-Jan Engel <cjpengel.dbalert@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Alas, I cannot go into details. But Mogens is right. Cache corruption is
>>possible, and cause tremendous problems, uh, challenges.
>>
>>Regards, Carel-Jan


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