Exactly stated in my opinion. It's all based around budget.

Granted I run a 6TB SAN and need the consumable space. With a total of 43 drives, I personally needed to...

That also depends on budget.

Since in laymans terms, the writes are actually going to the log files till truncated and reads are in essence coming from the MDB. Why wouldn't...

Could you be a little more precise about the space your using ?

Commonly I normally keep the OS on Completely diffrent spindles and raids than from SQL.

(1) Usually a...