Re: More drives or bigger drives

In addition to the advice already received regarding throughput and reliability, consider how many drives your current storage system can deal with.

If a SAN, how many drives will max out the head unit's capacity?

Will you need to purchase additional storage cabinets for the higher number of drives?

Your SA will help you think about stuff like that. :)

Jared

On Friday 02 May 2003 10:32, david hill wrote:
> Hi Everyone
>
> We were looking into buying A new IO subsystem for a new server.
>
> So I was curios what everybody's thoughts were on what is faster
>
> 4 x 73gig or 8 * 36gig
>
> Higher density or more heads?
>
> Thanks
> David Hill
> DBA
> Le Chateau

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