[Info-vax] The Future of Server Hardware?

[Paul Sture]

In article <k4mo38$hg3$1 at Iltempo.Update.UU.SE>,
 Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:

> Oh, and I should point out that ATA and SATA disks have never been close 
> to the bleeding edge, so if that is your disk interface of choice, then 
> you'll probably not find anything faster than 7200 rpm.

Um, yes. I did some research into SATA disks circa 2007/8.  It turned 
out that the designation SATA-II was in fact the name of the newly 
formed organisation to take care of the SATA standard. and nothing to do 
with disk capabilities.

That didn't stop the marketing departments of course.  For a start they 
pushed the burst speeds rather than sustained data rates.

There are USB fans aplenty, also IMHO victims of the marketing folks.

I note that USB 3.0 has given my local retail outlets a chance to push 
prices up again, but we don't use those places any more unless they have 
a special offer on.

> 
> Just checked a local internet computer store, which mostly sell to 
> private and small business. Seagate Cheetah. 15K rpm, U320 SCSI, 80 pin 
> disk.
> Average seek time is 3.5ms. 300GB disk. Costs about $500. (Noone said 
> they were cheap.) 16MB internal cache on the disk.

What price are SCSI cards nowadays?

But a famous quote from the mountain of Windows Server stuff I read a 
couple of years ago (from memory, so not accurate):

"If you suffer a Denial of Service attack, your disk will fail. In this 
case replace it with a SCSI disk"

WTF?  These people were telling me that Windows Server had hit 
Enterprise capability (which it since has), but were still talking about 
crappy hardware...

-- 
Paul Sture