With the 8TB SSD drives that Azure has, which makes the most sense to use multiple 1TB SSDs

Of course I need to stripe the 8 disks together in Windows, but there’s no cost for that. The cost of 8 1TB drives is slightly higher than 1 8TB drive by 114 pounds in the case of this screenshots. But given the performance difference it’s a cost worth having.

So why would I want the 8TB drive, because I have a GS5 that needs 1/2PB of storage. There’s no “easy” way to do that with 1TB drives. If/when we get P70+ drives things will get really interesting.

Denny



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