"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> wrote on 07/11/2007
02:01:16 PM:
> Has anyone used SATA drives for primary storage.  Is it really a bad
idea?

I've been using some SATA disks for a primary staging pool for a few
months.
It was the only storage we had at the time . . . so I used it.  This was
SATA in a EMC Clariion.  Config'ed as raid5

In general, I was quite happy with it's performance.

Now . . .the BUT's . . .

I grabed about 1tb across 30-40 lightly used spindles
in multiple Raid5 raidsets.  In other words, I had
enough spindles to get the iops/throughput I needed.
According  to EMC's docs,  these SATA disks are capable of
around 60 iops.

Rick


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