Re: 10K vs 15k rpm for analytics

Scott Marlowe wrote:
> True, I just looked at the Hitachi 7200 RPM 2TB Ultrastar and it lists
> and average throughput of 134 Megabytes/second which is quite good.
>

Yeah, but have you tracked the reliability of any of the 2TB drives out
there right now?  They're terrible.  I wouldn't deploy anything more
than a 1TB drive right now in a server, everything with a higher
capacity is still on the "too new to be stable yet" side of the fence to me.

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