On Wednesday, July 23, 2003, at 03:33 PM, Grigsby, Garl wrote:
I guess there are a few questions I would ask before I answered.< $10k USD
1) What is your budget?
2) How many users?approximately 5000
3) What OS/Platform are you going to host this on?
freebsd
4) What are your uptime requirements?
Maximal, this a core service, and needs to be bulletproof.
I would be extremely happy if we didn't have to reboot it for anything less
than a kernel upgrade.
5) What time frame are you looking at?
between 3-6 months for fielding it, with an effective service life of 3-5 years
(if we outgrow it in 3 years we'll be happy ;-)
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Garl
-----Original Message----- From: Larry Price [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 3:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [eug-lug]SCSI vs. ATA vs. IDE raid for >1 TB storage array
We have an argument going here in the office regarding how to spec a storage array for a high volume, low-latency production server that would need to hold and serve approximately 1-3 TB of maildirs
(lots of small files being sought by people who get cranky when they are noticeably slow in arriving)
the basic argument is about ata-raid vs. scsi
It looks like there are a __lot__ of people trying to sell ata-raid right now, the question is would that work for our application
Figured I would ask the knowledgeable and opinionated ( I'll let you know when I find the list of knowledgable people ;)_
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