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> -----Original Message----- > From: GRIDPP2: Deployment and support of SRM and local storage > > A major benefit of mounting the OS disks internally is that we have to > buy one less disk server to achieve the same total amount of storage. > Really? As compared with the option of filling all of the hotswap bays with high capacity storage disks and putting the OS on a partition of the RAID? Obviously having 36 storage drives beats 34 storage drives with two hotswap OS disks, but does skimming the few Gb needed for the OS off the top of the array actually make much difference? Ewan