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mmt on Sept 4, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Sun engineer responds to the Backblaze "Petabytes ...

desktop grade hard disks

I believe the data dispel this marketing myth.

http://usenix.org/events/fast07/tech/schroeder/schroeder_htm...

http://usenix.org/events/fast07/tech/full_papers/pinheiro/pi...

ciupicri on Sept 5, 2009 [–]

Interesting papers, but based on what I've skimmed and remember I don't think that they compare desktop grade disks with server grade disks.

mmt on Sept 8, 2009 | [–]

Given the length of history, they do, in effect, by comparing disks with server-grade interfaces (e.g. SCSI) with desktop-grade interfaces (e.g. IDE).

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