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.