My boss has finally decided that I've thrown enough time at this
problem, and offered to buy new hardware. I'm a bit concerned that if I
spec out a system I'll end up with a very expensive machine that suffers
from the same problems that I currently have, so I'm going to ask for
everyones help.
My first decision point is potentially the easiest. I thought rather
than buying one huge backup server and trying to backup all 32 hosts, it
might be smarter to buy 2 (or more) smaller machines and splitting up
the load. I would think that multiple machines might cost a little more
up front, but I'm hoping I would get better throughput that way.
The second decision point would be vendor. Currently we buy most of our
hardware from Dell. I'm fine with Dell unless there is vendor out there
that sells boxes for a reasonable price that are hands down better for
the application (possibly because of RAID controller cards). No matter
what vendor it is, I'll definitely be using some type of commodity
hardware as my budget definitely won't allow for the newest Blade
servers from IBM.
I've already read a lot of the discussion on RAID configurations in the
list. I've ruled out RAID 5. RAID 10 looks nice, but really expensive.
A simple mirror seems pointless, and a simple stripe seems like too
much of a single point of failure. If I were to do RAID 10, with say
500GB SATA drives, would a single raid controller suffice, or does it
really pay to get 2?
Any input would be greatly appreciated. If I failed to consider any
other topic, please feel free to let me know about those as well.
Tony Nelson
Starpoint Solutions
Tony Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Dir of IT Operation
Starpoint Solutions
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