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Are the 10K Drive's Days Numbered?: Page 2 of 2

With wide striping across 2.5" drives so there are lots of positioners per PB, and flash for read cache, logs and directories and the most active data, a system with 10% to 20% of its capacity in flash and the rest in 1- or 2-TB 2.5" drives might be cost and performance competitive with systems that use 15K drives and less sophisticated data location technologies -- like making the storage guy figure it out.

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