SATA vs NL-SAS vs SAS For New Array
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@BRRABill said in SATA vs NL-SAS vs SAS For New Array:
The server I am looking to put these drives into has 3.5 inch bays, so I could use either 3.5 or 2.5 inch disks.
Is there a preferred one to go with in this scenario? Or does size really not matter, so to speak? Is one preferred?
Sometimes on xByte the 2.5 drive is cheaper than the 3.5 which is why I ask...
If you have 3.5" bays, you'd use those disks. With very rare exception. 3.5" is much cheaper but uses lots of space. But you are already using that space so...
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@BRRABill said in SATA vs NL-SAS vs SAS For New Array:
Well, there are a couple ways of looking at this.
Considering the drives will sit unusued if I go anything OTHER than 7.2K 500GB, it's actually wasted money if I were to go that way.
No, that's called the sunk cost fallacy and should never be considered. That money is already spent and is part of both equations equally. You own the disks, so the possibility of using the disks for "free" should be considered as an option, but the cost of them is not a factor. If you got them for free, for $300 or for a billion dollars doesn't matter, what you have today are some disks and nothing more. Don't give into the emotions of sunk cost.
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@scottalanmiller said in SATA vs NL-SAS vs SAS For New Array:
No, that's called the sunk cost fallacy and should never be considered. That money is already spent and is part of both equations equally. You own the disks, so the possibility of using the disks for "free" should be considered as an option, but the cost of them is not a factor. If you got them for free, for $300 or for a billion dollars doesn't matter, what you have today are some disks and nothing more. Don't give into the emotions of sunk cost.
I agree with that, but the discussion was whether to include that cost in my "total cost" column above.
I guess a better question would be ... if someone gave me 4 of those drives for free, would I put $400 for total cost or $800?
If this was a discussion on straight cost vs. IOPS, I think I would use the $800. But since I am trying to figure it out for MY scenarion, I would think the $400.
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@BRRABill said in SATA vs NL-SAS vs SAS For New Array:
@scottalanmiller said in SATA vs NL-SAS vs SAS For New Array:
No, that's called the sunk cost fallacy and should never be considered. That money is already spent and is part of both equations equally. You own the disks, so the possibility of using the disks for "free" should be considered as an option, but the cost of them is not a factor. If you got them for free, for $300 or for a billion dollars doesn't matter, what you have today are some disks and nothing more. Don't give into the emotions of sunk cost.
I agree with that, but the discussion was whether to include that cost in my "total cost" column above.
I guess a better question would be ... if someone gave me 4 of those drives for free, would I put $400 for total cost or $800?
If this was a discussion on straight cost vs. IOPS, I think I would use the $800. But since I am trying to figure it out for MY scenarion, I would think the $400.
Depends, are you trying to make a business decision or just a post mortem?
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@scottalanmiller said in SATA vs NL-SAS vs SAS For New Array:
No, that's called the sunk cost fallacy and should never be considered. That money is already spent and is part of both equations equally. You own the disks, so the possibility of using the disks for "free" should be considered as an option, but the cost of them is not a factor. If you got them for free, for $300 or for a billion dollars doesn't matter, what you have today are some disks and nothing more. Don't give into the emotions of sunk cost.
I understand the concept of sunk cost. (Unless the rest of this post demonstrated I do not. Then just forget I said that.)
But if their "free nature" allows the cost of a system utilizing them to be less, wouldn't that make that option, if equal to the other options, more attractive?
AKA, I not making the decision BASED off of having these disks. That would be an incorrect way to move forward. Throwing good money after bad money and all that.
But to me, it seems like the scenario that utilizes these disks (the 8 7.2K SATA solution) makes just as much sense if not more than the others, taking everything into consideration. Though I'll admit to still being totally on the fence with all options.
I haven't even really ruled out just trying a different set of SSDs from xByte.
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@BRRABill said in SATA vs NL-SAS vs SAS For New Array:
But to me, it seems like the scenario that utilizes these disks (the 8 7.2K SATA solution) makes just as much sense if not more than the others, taking everything into consideration. Though I'll admit to still being totally on the fence with all options.
Probably, but only because part of the equation is owning four disks today that you can use, if you want. That they are paid for or free or whatever, isn't a factor. The disks themselves are part of what you have. The amount that they cost are not part of "what it will cost."
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@scottalanmiller said
The amount that they cost are not part of "what it will cost."
That was my original theory on the matter.
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This whole thing stemmed from my comment that even though the drives are already paid for, they should still be included the actual cost column of the project.
But for discussion with management, they could be left off.
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@Dashrender said in SATA vs NL-SAS vs SAS For New Array:
This whole thing stemmed from my comment that even though the drives are already paid for, they should still be included the actual cost column of the project.
But for discussion with management, they could be left off.
Yes, but look at all the extra learning I received!
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@Dashrender said in SATA vs NL-SAS vs SAS For New Array:
This whole thing stemmed from my comment that even though the drives are already paid for, they should still be included the actual cost column of the project.
But for discussion with management, they could be left off.
Only in a post mortem sort of way, not for a planning sort of way. Their cost isn't useful information for any purpose that I can think of except determining if the decision to buy them in the first place was a good one.
