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I found it interesting that FB uses 2.5" drives in RAID 10 config. I would imagine the lower power of the drives makes up for the increased cost. I would thin

I found it interesting that FB uses 2.5" drives in RAID 10 config. I would imagine the lower power of the drives makes up for the increased cost. I would think that they're significantly slower, but it looks like Seagate makes a reasonably priced 10,000RPM SCSI 2.5" drive.

apathy 18y ago
Interesting about the 10KRPM 2.5" SCSI drives. How bad is the power consumption for equivalent SATA configurations? AdWords used pretty much the same rig for MySQL servers (RAID 10) although the drives were all 15K 3.5" SCSI drives.