RE: Solid State Disks for Databases
- From: "Murching, Bob" <bob_murching@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "'niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx'" <niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx>, "'DGoulet@xxxxxxxx'" <DGoulet@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 15:40:27 -0400
"ps. $5000 for 72gb seems to come from a vendor that sells Redundant Arrays
of Inordinately expensive Disks. Is the performance and reliability really
better than say http://www.apple.com/xserve/raid/ ?"
Remember when half the country believed that Saddam Hussain personally
knocked down the NYC towers and seemingly nobody wanted to disagree? I
think there are quite a few similar situations in storage today.
Myth: highly managed storage reduces labor cost by reducing the cost of
managing and provisioning storage.
Reality: highly managed storage often comes with a price premium that, for
many small and medium sized businesses, more than offsets any potential
reduction in labor savings.
Myth: storage provisioning and integration are the greatest challenges faced
by IT shops today.
Reality: performance, throughput and guaranteed performance are equally
important for many of us, but somewhere along the way that message has
gotten lost.
Myth: ROI on high-end storage is positive b/c you can upgrade the higher end
units
Reality: price out the cost to upgrade, and often it's cheaper to just chuck
the high end SAN or NAS and buy a new one... Make sure you're sitting down
before asking about trade-in credit for your 12-month-old six- or
seven-figure storage solution
And yet, Apple can make a solid 5.6TB fiber-enabled box for 14 large or
whatever it is, and nobody's going to buy it because it doesn't come with
some fancy provisioning software or a chassis whose internal components can
be upgraded two years later for 70% of the original purchase cost. Go
figure.
Bob
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