[rescue] FC-AL drives on sale at geeks.com
Joshua Boyd
jdboyd at jdboyd.net
Mon Jan 7 11:41:33 CST 2008
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 10:53:14AM -0500, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
> >>> I agree in general, but that SATA drive doesn't work so well in my
> >>> Blade 1000.
> >> The SATA drive won't be anywhere near as fast, though, no?
> >
> > The latest SATA drives are pushing 100MB/s. I would imagine that you
> > would have to be looking at some pretty darn new FC drives to beat that.
>
> I would think any *pile* of FC drives striped would be faster than a
> single SATA drive.
I thought we were talking about something like 2 FC drives versus 2 SATA
drives, since we talking about a Blade 1000.
Also, a pile of FC drives striped would be less reliable than a single
SATA drive. I don't know about you, but I don't call that acceptable.
That said, real on the market SATA drives can sustain 800 Mb/s. How
fast has anyone ever managed to push single link 1Gb/s FC? I would
figure that striped array of 4 scsi drives would result in overhead of
at least 20%. Is this a valid rule of thumb for FC?
Of course, there are multiple ways to measure speed. I mainly care
about sustained transfers. Maybe you care more about seeks. I'm sure a
FC array would seek better than a single SATA drive.
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