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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com>
Date: Thu,  9 Aug 2007 13:20:00 -0400
To: lucio@proxima.alt.za, 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] robust heterogenous home file server?
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> I hope this doesn't sound like teaching grandma to suck eggs, but
> would laptop-sized disks not help at least with dimensions, I'm not
> sure about price?

that's a good point.

our first product used laptop drives.  at the time one could get more
bytes/u of rack space with laptop drives.  that's no longer the case.
sata drives have gotten much larger and faster.  laptop drives have
gotten a little bigger but not much faster. 

if you want a really cheep aoe device.  use vblade on a pair of
fs(3)-mirrored sata drives.  i do that at home.

- erik