[geeks] Big Blue Smoke

[Eric Dittman]

> > > > uh-huh. 40,000 web servers? exactly how much traffic are you pushing
> > > > here? page counts? byte counts? i dont believe for a femtosecond that
> > > > bang:buck netras dont whup your mainframes ass.
> > >
> > > And the X1 is only $1k
> > >
> > > or since they are IDE based, with no PCI slot, do they not count?
> > 
> > If you want to run your business on an IDE drive, be my guest.
> 
> Hey now :)
> 
> I run parts of my business on IDE - but I also have redundant machines
> and load balancers, as well as NAS.  If/when one of my servers dies,
> nobody notices - and I can bring up a spare server in about 10 minutes
> to take it's place.  Of course, these are *appliances*, and fast disk
> I/O isn't necessary.

I used to believe in lots of cheap IDE over fewer, more expensive
SCSI, but the price of SCSI has come down, and the SCSI drives
just seem to keep working.

Replacing the SCSI with hotswap and faster restore doesn't
hurt, either.
-- 
Eric Dittman
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