RE: Solid State Disks for Databases

Bob,

        That's part of what we're doing, a fork lift upgrade of our disk subsystems. Why? Because upgrading what we had was more expensive, especially in maintenance dollars, than replacing.

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From: Murching, Bob [mailto:bob_murching_at_BUDCO.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 3:40 PM To: 'niall.litchfield_at_gmail.com'; Goulet, Dick Cc: 'hkchital_at_singnet.com.sg'; 'Oracle-L' Subject: RE: Solid State Disks for Databases

"ps. $5000 for 72gb seems to come from a vendor that sells Redundant Arrays
of Inordinately expensive Disks. Is the performance and reliability really
better than say http://www.apple.com/xserve/raid/ ?"  

Remember when half the country believed that Saddam Hussain personally knocked down the NYC towers and seemingly nobody wanted to disagree? I think there are quite a few similar situations in storage today.

Myth: highly managed storage reduces labor cost by reducing the cost of managing and provisioning storage.
Reality: highly managed storage often comes with a price premium that, for
many small and medium sized businesses, more than offsets any potential reduction in labor savings.

Myth: storage provisioning and integration are the greatest challenges faced
by IT shops today.
Reality: performance, throughput and guaranteed performance are equally important for many of us, but somewhere along the way that message has gotten lost.

Myth: ROI on high-end storage is positive b/c you can upgrade the higher end
units
Reality: price out the cost to upgrade, and often it's cheaper to just chuck
the high end SAN or NAS and buy a new one... Make sure you're sitting down
before asking about trade-in credit for your 12-month-old six- or seven-figure storage solution

And yet, Apple can make a solid 5.6TB fiber-enabled box for 14 large or whatever it is, and nobody's going to buy it because it doesn't come with
some fancy provisioning software or a chassis whose internal components can
be upgraded two years later for 70% of the original purchase cost. Go figure.

Bob

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