14 November 2008 06:34
tonyrogerson
1TB SAS for £142.22 ex VAT - Free up your expensive fast SAS and stick your backups on these 1TB's ones.
When you can buy a 1TB Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) drive for just £142.22 ex VAT you just have to get 2 of them.
Ok, so its just 7200rpm but do I care? Not a jot; its for my server here with just myself using it.
Outside of me, and to my clients - this now opens the door for freeing up your 15Krpm/10Krpm expensive SAS disks for what they really should be used for - the database itself; any backups - well, I used to recommend using SATA because at the end of the day the backup is sequential in nature so 15Krpm/10Krpm/7.2Krpm doesn't really come in to it.
So, get yourself on ebay - buy some caddies and get some of these 1TB disks and use them for your backups before shunting them off to tape or remote NAS.
Enjoy.
Tony.
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