The only problem is that RAID is still relatively expensive. The ideal situation is to have a RAID controller that alleviates the burden from the CPP and to have Battery Backed Write Back cache. Servers don't normally get tweaked with like a workstation so they don't crash as much but in a workstation you're multitasking. In RAID 5 it's possible to get corrupted data without the system knowing it due to crashes where writes don't complete.
I'd personally love to see perp recording in 2.5" Small Form Factor drives running at 10k. Add 4-6 of these drives to a Workstation boosts your IOPS accordingly yet they'd take up the same space as 3 3.5" drives. The problem is most SFF drives max at 73GB we need them to hit 146GB for SAS/SATA
omgwtfbbq
|