Really? I could have got tiered storage on my new sub-$1000 computer I got last month? Which vendor could I get that from, Dell, Hp, Acer?
>It's not clear it's actually better than the caching system others use....
It's just a different technology with different characteristics, it's not a question of better or worse.
One obvious benefit is that you get the sum of the two drive's capacity. Also the two drives are on two different drive connections, not a single connection to a combined device, so there may be bandwidth efficiencies as well. But you just sit there stewing in your own distain. God forbid that anyone try anything different or unusual, that's got to be bad, right?
1. I think you are projecting a bit here. You come off as slightly crazed.
2. I never claimed it was cheap, i objected to acting like this technology is new. It's quite widely used in the enterprise world.
3. The cache model has the drives on two different connections as well. See Intel's Rapid Storage Technology.
4. I think i refuted the idea that the sum of the two drives capacity is useful in the current market (it's slower and not cheaper enough).
5. I'm all for different or unusual. I object to them choosing a marketing buzzword and pretending they've come up with some heretofore unthought of technology. I think I made that clear when I objected to calling it pioneering or new technology.
Really? I could have got tiered storage on my new sub-$1000 computer I got last month? Which vendor could I get that from, Dell, Hp, Acer?
>It's not clear it's actually better than the caching system others use....
It's just a different technology with different characteristics, it's not a question of better or worse.
One obvious benefit is that you get the sum of the two drive's capacity. Also the two drives are on two different drive connections, not a single connection to a combined device, so there may be bandwidth efficiencies as well. But you just sit there stewing in your own distain. God forbid that anyone try anything different or unusual, that's got to be bad, right?