Cheap ATA disks/backup target is the Apple market. No law says you can't
attach their hba to your san. The server is a screamer which the focus.
Bleeding on the first Oracle release for OS X doesn't sound like my idea of
fun, but the more players the better. Don't throw the baby out with
the bath water.
On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 09:59:19AM -0800, Steve Rospo wrote:
>
> I'm *ONLY* interested if there's actual numbers, price and performance
> along with a comparison to more "traditional" Oracle platforms. From the
> look of the prices below the real price break comes in on the disk storage
> not the nodes, but at what performance cost? I can imagine it's pretty
> fast at low concurrency but I want to see what happens when there's a lot
> of concurrency. We're talking RAC here so it's not a big stretch to
> demand large amounts of concurrency.
>
> Now that much cheap space would be very nice for disk backups....
>
> S-
>
>
> On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Niall Litchfield wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 16:12:35 -0800 (PST), Steve Rospo
> > <srospo_at_vallent.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > At the last PSOUG meeting Daniel was very excited about Oracle RAC on Mac.
> > > I can't remember the numbers but I seem to remember a two node + 2TB
> > > shared storage for some ridiculously low amount. (I want to say < $100K
> > > but I might be wrong.) According to Daniel it was absolutely *smoking*.
> > > I'm attending next week, so I can report back if anyone is interested.
> >
> > I'd be interested, especially if actual numbers are shown - I assuming
> > 'smoking' is a good thing in a server, rather than something to be
> > concerned about....
> >
> > As far as price goes, the storage is $13,000 dollars for 5.6tb of
> > disks, a dual proc xserve g5 is $4000 so I imagine the price tag is
> > under $30,000 for the hardware (and some large figure for the
> > software)
> >
> > Daniel did remark on the speed of the storage on c.d.o.s, which given
> > that the storage is either 7 or 14 ATA devices I find a little
> > unlikely.
> >
> >
>
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