Hard Drive Speed

[John Summerfield]

Ed Greshko wrote:
>

> 
>> Mainframes _do_ do 3 Gbytes/sec, and more;-)
> 
> Sure do...  Sometimes wish I had one of those...but then again not sure I
> could afford the electric bill.

Some aren't that bad.

If you have the right kind of workload (forget anything that requires 
lots of CPU), and can stump up the capital outlay, they can be a really 
good proposition. They are really good with databases.

And with them, virtualisation is really old technology:-)





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