They potentially, have hundreds of thousands of people but there's no guarantee and noone to shout at if it isn't done / doesn't work / breaks something.
I'd find that hard to sell to the people I have to convince to part with money.
The 2850 will hold six drives which allows for 3 mirrored pairs to separate out OS, logs and data.
It should be possible to get 147GB drives for the data mirror and faster 73GB drives for the others.
I don't know how the Perc controllers are but when I was speaking to EMC about this they mentioned that they put a lot more effort into optimising RAID-5 performance in their SAN products than other RAID types as this is the most commonly used.
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They potentially, have hundreds of thousands of people but there's no guarantee and noone to shout at if it isn't done / doesn't work / breaks something.
I'd find that hard to sell to the people I have to convince to part with money.
The 2850 will hold six drives which allows for 3 mirrored pairs to separate out OS, logs and data.
It should be possible to get 147GB drives for the data mirror and faster 73GB drives for the others.
I don't know how the Perc controllers are but when I was speaking to EMC about this they mentioned that they put a lot more effort into optimising RAID-5 performance in their SAN products than other RAID types as this is the most commonly used.