Get as many 300 GB fast IDE drives as you need to do RAID 5 and have a short stack of ready-to-swap-in reserve drives, and a *good* IDE RAID controller, fast with good cache and hot-swapping. I am guessing but I think the numbers on this would favor >> 10K and >>> SCSI, which means this solutions benefits everything else in its environment.
regards, Ben B PS - Am I correct in assuming the solution has service available, but needs to be reliable ultimately to the end-user? Sounds like individual part failures in a redundant system of cheap parts has a place... PPS - for pricing I tend to refer to http://dealnews.com and http://pricewatch.com Hope the dot-com linkages don't offend. On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 16:45:13 -0700 Larry Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | that's less than 10K " < 10K" | | I didn't say how much less...;-) | | On Wednesday, July 23, 2003, at 04:07 PM, Tim Howe wrote: | | > You have 10k to build it?!? | | that's less than 10K " < 10K" | | I didn't say how much less...;-) | > | > Hell, get super fast SCSI drives and stop worrying. Sheesh, 10k.... | > Why are we having this discussion then? | | Because money that is not spent on disk arrays can go toward the | fiber-optic drop | or sysadmin salaries, or the long-dreamed "Reverse War Driving | SchoolBus o' Destiny" | | And because I want to get a feel for actual performance of these | ATA-raid boxes. | | _______________________________________________ | EuG-LUG mailing list | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
