RE: Apple RAID marketing?

It depends a lot on the workload - for DSS-esque systems with lots of sequential reads/writes, etc., the performance of the individual ATA spindles will probably be more than adequate. As another side note, at that price point, maybe you could afford to buy double the number of spindles you need and double your spindle density, reducing the impact of the 7200 RPM drives?

Thanks,
Matt

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> -----Original Message-----

> From: ml-errors_at_fatcity.com [mailto:ml-errors_at_fatcity.com] On 

> Behalf Of Jesse, Rich

> Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 11:00 AM

> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

> Subject: Apple RAID marketing?

> 

> 

> So a co-worker sends me an e-mail about Apple's 

> just-announced Xserve RAID with 3+TB for US $11K.  After 

> looking at Apple's page, I poo-poo it because it's 7.2K spin 

> ATA/100 drives, which I figure would lead to all sorts of 

> problems.  I see today in Computerworld that it's being 

> touted as "blazing" with a max thruput of 210MBps.  Hmmmm...I 

> know the mid-range FAStT SAN we're looking at is rated at 

> about 800MBps theoretical max.

> 

> Just looking for confirmation/rebuttal that I don't think it 

> would be wise to load up an Xserve RAID with Oracle DBs -- 

> even if the BAARF's nemesis is avoided.

> 

http://www.apple.com/xserve/raid

TIA,
Rich

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