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For small shops with one to maybe three partitions yes SAS will be cheaper
both the drive itself and clearly the card to connect it. You can
virtualize the tape DRIVE through IBM i to other guest partitions as well.
If you have one Fiber drive and one Fiber card you can certainly go
straight between them with no switch. From a flexibility standpoint though
you are *EXACTLY equal to SAS at that point and you've spent more money!
- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis
www.frankeni.com
www.iDevCloud.com
www.iInTheCloud.com
On 8/19/2014 10:36 AM, rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
If that's the case, why would anyone ever go SAS?
Is SAS cheaper than fiber? Significantly so?This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list
If you are talking one card to one drive, do you really need the SAN
switch?
Rob Berendt
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