Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> That is quite the toy. I can get 4 SATA-II with RAID Controller, with
> battery backed cache, for the same price or less :P
>
True, but if you look at tests like
http://www.anandtech.com/show/2899/12 it suggests there's probably at
least a 6:1 performance speedup for workloads with a lot of random I/O
to them. And I'm really getting sick of the power/noise/heat that the 6
drives in my home server produces.
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