Re: Anyone using a SAN?

On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Peter Koczan wrote:
> One of the other things I was interested in was the "hidden costs" of
> a SAN. For instance, we'd probably have to invest in more UPS capacity
> to protect our data. Are there any other similar points that people
> don't initially consider regarding a SAN?

You may well find that the hardware required in each machine to access the
SAN (fibrechannel cards, etc) and switches are way more expensive than
just shoving a cheap hard drive in each machine. Hard drives are
mass-produced, and remarkably cheap for what they do. SAN hardware is
specialist, and expensive.

Matthew

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