Re: [Xen-users] Large server, Xen limitations

[Steve Thompson <smt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2 Jan 2009, John Madden wrote:

> On Thursday 01 January 2009 08:15:09 am morten@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > We're talking about a 4 x Quad core CPU server with 64 GBs of RAM and a
> > couple of terabytes of RAIDed SATA storage.
> I'd worry about your I/O with that setup if you plan to do anything
> disk-intensive.  If you're already spending on the 64GB RAM, buy SAS.
I second this recommendation. I went with SATA myself for cost reasons (I 
got 750 GB enterprise SATA drives for $120 each). I guess that the best I 
can say is that SATA gives better price/performance.
Steve

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