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Re: Two sanity checks

From: Keith Boulton <kboulton_at_ntlworld.com>
Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2002 12:23:58 -0000
Message-ID: <Hs898.22853$H37.2671552@news2-win.server.ntlworld.com>


> 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

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