RE: World premier performance of the BAARF party logo

Jared wrote
> Here are pics if interested.
>
> http://www.cybcon.com/~jkstill/no_raid_5/no_raid5_1.jpg
> http://www.cybcon.com/~jkstill/no_raid_5/no_raid5_2.jpg

Now that's a <i>good</i> hat.

> I too do not understand why vendors push RAID 5 when
> RAID 10 is clearly more profitable. I speculate that they
> may be afraid of being accused of overselling when
> PHB's discover the RAID 10's they just purchased could
> have been RAID 5's for less money.

I think Steve has the correct response to us here, why sell 20 extra disks, when you can sell 6 controllers, 2gb cache, auto-balancing blah-di-blah software, 1000 biblio-bit fibre, installation consultancy and a partridge in a pear tree (oops maybe not the last one).

Niall

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