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> Yup. As I said, they're expensive. It's all a matter of juggling ALL
> the numbers involved and see if it's worth it. Sometimes it isn't.
I couldn't agree more.
It is my feeling that many people are not doing this sort of cost/benefit calculation and even where they are, they are looking at theoretical benefits more than actual.
Mind you, that's not changed in the past 15 years!
> disks/controllers/partitions consumed the largest section of time of a
> sysadmin and a DBA at a site I was in about 5 years ago. That was
Perhaps naively, I would have expected a system to be a great deal more
stable than that unless it was working on the edge of its performance
limits.
Received on Sat Feb 09 2002 - 06:23:58 CST