On 1/3/2018 6:40 PM, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
It's the 21st century, except for big data
centers at Google,
Facebook, Microsoft, et. al, who uses disk drives in this day and
age?
Have you actually priced "Enterprise" level SSD's lately that
come with
a support contract so that when they hit their end of life, the VAR will
replace them?
Dell 400GB SLC (Hitachi) in a Compellent, $5K, and that's with an
educational discount a couple of years ago.
Sure, if you're doing an IOPS/$ comparison, they shine. But for the most
part, a Compellent with a few SLC SSDs, and a few MLC SSDs, still needs
spinning rust to make the bulk of the storage.
And this is a tiny 70TB installation mostly for VMware and Oracle DB.
ak