[ILUG] High speed data storage and transmission.

[Nick Murtagh]

conor at discuskeeping.com wrote:
> Redundancy....... how important is your data availability, how much money
> will you loose if you loose availibility. Sure FC is expensive, and sure
> you can mirror over rsync & ssh and other such things, but at what cost?
> 
> Will you loose millions per hour? If the answer is yes, then the cost of a
> backup SAN is negligable.
> I cannot see a SATA connection going over kilometers, or can it?

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