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Kenneth van Surksum on
on November 23 2009, 6:27 PM
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Aidan Finn: I hate when people talk about disk being cheap. I want to just smack them. Disk for laptops and PC’s is cheap. Disk for fault tolerance server computing is far from cheap.
If you’re running a Hyper-V cluster then you know that you can’t just go out and buy some cheap storage. You’re looking at shared storage with cluster support. That means either a Fibre Channel or iSCSI SAN. And then there’s the disk. You could go budget and use SATA or worry about performance and go with SAS. Odds are it will be the latter which provides less storage for a higher price. Add in fault tolerance and you’ve use more expensive HBA’s, doubled your switch port requirements, etc.
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