[Dovecot] Howto add another disk storage

Stan Hoeppner stan at hardwarefreak.com
Tue Jul 10 06:59:48 EEST 2012


On 7/9/2012 2:41 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
> 
> 
> Am 09.07.2012 21:29, schrieb Stan Hoeppner:
>> On 7/9/2012 3:17 AM, Reindl Harald wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Am 09.07.2012 07:48, schrieb Wojciech Puchar:
>>>>> disagreed with my statement, then agreed with it.  Apparently you didn't
>>>>> realize you did so.  Would you please clarify what I stated that is
>>>>> "simply not true"?  You comment WRT SSD doesn't prove anything I said to
>>>>> be untrue.  Quite the contrary, you reinforced my statements.
>>>>>
>>>> Actually the only storage i use are mainstream SATA drives
>>>
>>> ouch - that said and your offlist discussion why SAN storages
>>> are crap for you gives a picture - nobody, really nobody is
>>> using SATA for any production-storage
>>
>> That's simply not true Reindl.
>>
>> SATA drives are being used very widely in production today, and
>> outnumber SAS deployments by a very wide margin.  
> 
> for SOHO with no public services, yes

Google has more public facing services, servers, than anyone, and Google
uses only SATA drives, zero SAS.  They also host more mail spools and
mailboxes than anyone.  Again, all on SATA drives.

Now I'm sure you'll tell us why Google doesn't count for some reason in
this discussion, why their use of SATA isn't relevant somehow.

-- 
Stan




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