Re: raid 5 disaster

From: Mogens Nørgaard <mln_at_miracleas.dk>
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 17:23:32 +0200
Message-ID: <4120D174.6060906@miracleas.dk>

The real sales people will always try to move to areas where there are much and easy money to be made. SAN's make fantastic profits (notice how some of them are easily discounted 90% without a problem), and they're easy to sell because everybody thinks they need them.

As the price of the SAN's drop and it becomes possible to put iSCSI and SATA disks in them to get real, cheap disk systems, you will see the sales guys move to other areas (should happen within the next one to two years), leaving a bunch of technicians behind in their organisations who were forced to rubberstamp the RAID-5 configurations even though it was against their belief.

We will also see the vendors coming out with superior, fantastic, unbelievably clever new models that can do RAID-10 - and with a very reasonable update price attached.

Mogens

Raj Jamadagni wrote:

> Which brings up the question, how come those war stories haven't come up ... or SAN manufacturers
> invoke DCMA to supress those stories?
>
> Raj
> --- Carel-Jan Engel <cjpengel.dbalert_at_xs4all.nl> wrote:
>
>

>>Alas, I cannot go into details. But Mogens is right. Cache corruption is
>>possible, and cause tremendous problems, uh, challenges.
>>
>>Regards, Carel-Jan


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