Revenant (11/16/2012)
I agree, but numbers that David quotes are at least 10 times higher than what I hear from our ops.
Our ops guys flex the quote depending on the IO/throughput/access profile.
Storage volume is cheap, storage performance/concurrency isn't.
I'm waiting to see what happens to those people with 4TB drives in their Hadoop clusters once they start getting a few people battering them via HIVE or comparable technology.