Just to keep things short.. If all you're doing is what you stated then I wouldn't really worry too much about going 'whole-hog' with your hard drive.
What you have is more then sufficient to do what you want to do. Here is some food for thought though. It seems like Western Digital has better quality then Seagate as of late. I've been a Seagate fan for years now but been thinking about switching to Western Digital based upon comparative documents between the two that I read up on. If you were going to switch drives I would suggest the Western Digital Caviar Black WD5001AALS 500GB 7200 RPM 32MB. If you were not looking to switch to something comparative performance-wise and stick with the Seagate I would probably get a duplicate and at least mirror them so you have a backup if you experience any hardware failure. The same would go for the Western Digital drive as well. If money is no object then sure, go for it. But you've got a lot of machine there, and for what you are doing it ought to be more then sufficient. Just be sure you've got adequate cooling so you don't affect the life of your hardware more then it needs to be. ;-) -Matt On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 5:50 AM, mdma <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, this is my 1st post here, i usually sit back and just read > what's going on, scanning it for useful information. > I need some help regarding hard drives. I'm going to be running a dedicated > server soon and want to know which you guys think are better for the job. > The box will be running at first a couple of websites, small mysql > databases, and then of course mainly game servers. > The websites and database etc will be moved from this box to another down > the line, and it will then only run game servers. > My Box Specs are 1U > 2 x Quad Core Xeons > 8GB DDR2 > 250GB Seagate CUDA ES, 7200rpm 32mb cache, with NCQ hard drives. > > Should i be worried about the performance of these hard drives under load, > running multiple game servers etc, or should i upgrade them to Seagate > Cheetah 15k rpm SAS drives, or 10k rpm Raptors. > I have been told by some that the 10k rpm Raptors perform quite well, but i > would like the opinions of you guys to help me decide on the upgrade path. > I would hate to put all this time into setting everything up, only to have > the hard drives cause me issues down the track. > > Many Thanks > > Roy Jonas > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
