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Comment Intended use matters quite a bit (Score 1) 578

It's difficult to advise without details of intended use, but generally I think it through like this:

  • Your solution is $5K, alternative $50K.
  • Do you have $50k to spend? If all you can spend is $5K then this is the right choice.
  • How much time our you going to spend on-disk? Not much? Great then use those savings to buy a poopload of RAM for your memcached servers.
  • Already have RAM maxed out? Oh well use some of that money on more efficient power supplies for your perlbal/pound/nginx load balancers.
  • Load Balancers? Look dude, I just need to store alot of media.
  • Oh! why didn't you say so, just use Amazon S3.
  • What's that? You need in-house reliability and speed? Oh ok.
  • Buy the $50k SAN.

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