2TB NL drives are ideal for large block sequential IO... perfect examples would be production or dev backup to disk, database dumps etc, or streaming video recording from security cameras, security log file consolidation/storage, most file servers.. etc... they are horrible at small block random IO, which is pretty much what every database needs, whether its PRD or DEV.
My dev strategy is to use the SAS/FC drives, mag safe, Raid 5, set size to 8+1. Then for prod, we also use SAS/FC drives, cage safe, Raid 5, set size to max of what the cage count will allow for cage safe, currently 5+1 for us.
_________________ Richard Siemers The views and opinions expressed are my own and do not necessarily reflect those of my employer.
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