RE: why SAN ? why not external storage ?

From: Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield_at_dial.pipex.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 20:52:19 -0000
Message-Id: <24738.322742@fatcity.com>

Mogens wrote
> There are many things I don't get in this life.

I doubt it very much...

> One of them is the
> statements about disk storage being an admin nightmare and way too
> expensive. Aren't disks very cheap these days?!

Other than ignorance I see no way in which storage admin can be a nightmare, certainly as compared with OS or DB admin. As to cheap, as others have said, commodity disks are cheap proprietory disks that work with your specific storage solution aint. Until someone works out that there's a huge market for SANs that utilize off the shelf disks/switches etc. Received on Fri Mar 21 2003 - 14:52:19 CST