Re: SSD's

Yeah, when you add in the features that the SAN Storages have nowadays
(dedup, pattern reduction*, compression) you end up benefiting a lot from a
simple 2U for the chassis and maybe 2U for the SAN Switches...
You have to stop thinking in silos though. If x86, IBM i, and the rest
start sharing the same storage box the benefits only increase.

*Pattern reduction was on the roadmap, haven't read the latest releases to
see if it's finally here.

On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 11:11 AM DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

There is a curve that shows with small total disk capacity, Internal
disk is cheaper and eventually SAN Disk is cheaper as total capacity
goes up.

That curve continues to shift downward. The crossover point used to be
in the double digit TB numbers but now it's far lower than that.

THEN consider all the things you can do with SAN storage that internal
storage cannot and most likely will never do and there is big value in
moving outside the box for your storage.

- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

www.Frankeni.com
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On 8/8/2019 9:35 AM, Rob Berendt wrote:

If the goal is to reduce costs will buying a 5010E to do this just shift

the cost to now paying maintenance, electricity, cooling, etc for that?
Plus infrastructure and complexity?

Would that be less than the maintenance costs of having disk expansion

units in your P9?

Rob Berendt

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