[asterisk-users] New system for recording - SCSI, SAS or SATA?

2009-05-01 Thread Tony Mountifield
I'm in the process of specifying the hardware for some new Asterisk systems which will be running a substantial number of conferences with recording. I was wondering what there is to choose between SCSI, SAS and SATA disks, in terms of performance for this kind of application. I will be using

Re: [asterisk-users] New system for recording - SCSI, SAS or SATA?

2009-05-01 Thread Steve Howes
On 1 May 2009, at 09:30, Tony Mountifield wrote: I was wondering what there is to choose between SCSI, SAS and SATA disks, in terms of performance for this kind of application. SAS I will be using dual drives with kernel-based software RAID1. Why not go hardware?

Re: [asterisk-users] New system for recording - SCSI, SAS or SATA?

2009-05-01 Thread Gordon Henderson
On Fri, 1 May 2009, Tony Mountifield wrote: I'm in the process of specifying the hardware for some new Asterisk systems which will be running a substantial number of conferences with recording. I was wondering what there is to choose between SCSI, SAS and SATA disks, in terms of performance

Re: [asterisk-users] New system for recording - SCSI, SAS or SATA?

2009-05-01 Thread Tony Mountifield
In article d4bc241d-78f9-41cb-b1a5-24d54b274...@geekinter.net, Steve Howes st...@geekinter.net wrote: On 1 May 2009, at 09:30, Tony Mountifield wrote: I was wondering what there is to choose between SCSI, SAS and SATA disks, in terms of performance for this kind of application. SAS Cool

Re: [asterisk-users] New system for recording - SCSI, SAS or SATA?

2009-05-01 Thread Tony Mountifield
In article pine.lnx.4.64.0905011037010.25...@unicorn.drogon.net, Gordon Henderson gordon+aster...@drogon.net wrote: [a lot of useful stuff] Hi Gordon, thanks for your reply - very informative. The use of RAID1 is purely for the redundancy of mirrored disks, not performance. The RAM disk idea

Re: [asterisk-users] New system for recording - SCSI, SAS or SATA?

2009-05-01 Thread Steve Howes
On 1 May 2009, at 12:16, Tony Mountifield wrote: I will be using dual drives with kernel-based software RAID1. Why not go hardware? Familiarity, I suppose. Just using RAID1 for disk redundancy. Software RAID does add a bit of overhead, however guessing at the specs of the rest of the

Re: [asterisk-users] New system for recording - SCSI, SAS or SATA?

2009-05-01 Thread Benny Amorsen
t...@softins.clara.co.uk (Tony Mountifield) writes: I'm in the process of specifying the hardware for some new Asterisk systems which will be running a substantial number of conferences with recording. I was wondering what there is to choose between SCSI, SAS and SATA disks, in terms of

Re: [asterisk-users] New system for recording - SCSI, SAS or SATA?

2009-05-01 Thread Tony Mountifield
In article m3skjpgfvb@ursa.amorsen.dk, Benny Amorsen benny+use...@amorsen.dk wrote: t...@softins.clara.co.uk (Tony Mountifield) writes: I'm in the process of specifying the hardware for some new Asterisk systems which will be running a substantial number of conferences with recording.

Re: [asterisk-users] New system for recording - SCSI, SAS or SATA?

2009-05-01 Thread Andrew Joakimsen
There are RAID controllers (hardware, of course) that have battery backup, so the risk in very minimal in using write cache. Just one (random) example: http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/servers/proliantstorage/arraycontrollers/smartarrayp400/index.html SAS controllers support SAS and SATA

Re: [asterisk-users] New system for recording - SCSI, SAS or SATA?

2009-05-01 Thread Michael Graves
On Fri, 01 May 2009 14:35:52 +0200, Benny Amorsen wrote: t...@softins.clara.co.uk (Tony Mountifield) writes: I'm in the process of specifying the hardware for some new Asterisk systems which will be running a substantial number of conferences with recording. I was wondering what there is to