[2960] in SIPB-AFS-requests
Re: buying disks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Thu Mar 19 20:06:46 1998
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>, sipb-afsreq@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 17 Mar 1998 17:02:22 EST."
<199803172202.RAA08428@small-gods.MIT.EDU>
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 20:06:34 EST
> If people are uncomfortable about 9GB disks, then 4GB disks are only
> $517.69. But with disks as cheap as they are, I'd like the boost in
> cell space.
I'm a little concerned about the possible load on an SS5 with 36G of
disk on it, but I think that the load pattern in the SIPB cell means
this will probably be OK, so this is not an objection.
This also raises the question of whether we plan to run SunOS (2G
partition limit) or Solaris (no 2G partition limit) on the server, but
we can deal in either case, so this is not an objection.
We should note that we won't be able to get emergency spare disks form
ASO, but if we have our own hot spare, I'm not too worried, so this is
not an objection.
> We could also go through ADS, but I'm not convinced that the advance
> replacement guarantee is any better than keeping a spare. The price
> is certainly a lot higher.
WEll, we wouldn't be able to trade disks with ASO, but since we were
already planning on not doing that this is not an objection. We'll
need to pay a little more attention to the 3 year deadline rather than
the 5 year one we're used to, but that is probably OK.
Overall I don't object to this.
Jonathon
