[OT] EMC as a performance system (was Re: Install and RAID)
>>>>> "Adam" == Adam McKenna <adam@debian.org> writes:
Adam> No, but mainframe-like mega-IO systems such as EMC and
Adam> NetApp are.
EMC does not supply mega I/O bandwidth. A standard EMC has two
physical channels between it and the system it supports and, on the
far side the cache controller, has nothing better than SCSI-2
connecting disk strings together. It also, as someone else mentioned,
uses very large drive sizes making any sort of data partioning next to
impossible.
EMC does provide mega storage capacity. Storage capacity and storage
bandwidth are not the same thine.
--
Stephen (who manages > 1Gb OLTP databases for a day job)
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