Difference between UNIX and Windows Disk storage

 
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Old 04-20-2018
Difference between UNIX and Windows Disk storage

I have heard that UNIX disk storage is costlier than Windows Disk storage. Is that true? If not why we have limited storage on UNIX systems? Windows disk storage is so cheap nowadays. Is it not true for UNIX disks?
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Old 04-20-2018
That's not true, Windows and UNIX use the same hard drives. I have no idea what they were trying to say.
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Old 04-20-2018
Possibly because Unix systems tend to use SCSI disks rather than IDE/SATA, and therefore disk space is more costly.
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Old 04-21-2018
UNIX and Windows systems can and do use / support the same hard drives, so the statement ".... UNIX disk storage is costlier than Windows Disk storage" is nonsense.
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Old 04-21-2018
Perhaps you mean Enterprise storage versus Desktop storage?
Reasons are here.
The most important difference is regarding management and service.

Now to the hardware.
In the past the SCSI disks for servers had visibly more electronic circuits than the ATA disks for the desktop. And Unix desktops aka workstations had SCSI disks. The last Sun workstations used ATA disks...
Meanwhile the higher integration hides the complexity, and the price gap between SAS and SATA disks should heavily shrink - but does not. It might be the sales strategy of the big manufactures, or even a cartel...
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Old 04-21-2018
Either way, "enterprise versus desktop" the core premise that "UNIX storage" is more expensive than "Windows storage" is still nonsense.

UNIX and Windows are operating systems.

On both Windows or UNIX you can use SSD, ATA, SCSI, or whatever you, the person who configures the system, desires.

Network storage versus desktop storage is the same. The OS is independent of the underlying storage choice of the system designer.
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Old 04-23-2018
I haven't seen a physical SCSI device in eons. My understanding is SCSI doesn't scale well - to keep up with modern performance, it kept growing in cost and complexity compared to serial or network solutions, which pushed it out of many places it used to reign supreme. I know the concept is still used a lot in the abstract, even when the disks themselves aren't necessarily SCSI bus.

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