Hi Midnight, Thanks for your response too, all suggestions or ideas are welcome and greatly appreciated everyone. We are trying to future proof ourselves, and to minimise any hiccups that could be caused by slower SATA drives. Hence the question about fast 10krpm sata's or 15krpm SAS drives, we are still leaning towards SAS even though they are a bit expensive. If it means we run into less problems, down the track when the box does get more of a load on it, we 'll probably go for it(SAS hdd's now rather than later). I really cant see the point of spending more money now on sata's that will probably evenutally have to be upgraded to SAS drives. The money would be better spent now on just buying good quality fast drives and a nice 3ware controller.
Regards Roy Jonas -------------------------------------------------- From: "Midnight" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 9:53 AM To: "Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [hlds] Harddrives which to choose > Just my opinion: Unless you are planning to run lots of servers > (putting a lot of load on the bus) the disk probably won't impact > performance too much. The main thing faster disk will help is in tying > up the OS during disk activity, which could cause lag spikes for the > servers. The best way to avoid this would be to run fast disks and use > SAS not SATA. The read speed advantage itself is not really a big > value, if you load a map file 1 second faster it's not really a big time > savings. Instead it is all about keeping the server from hiccuping, > that's where the SAS can help, but really it probably is not needed. > > mdma wrote: >> Thanks for taking the time out to reply everyone. >> Its definitely given me some food for thought. >> I will sort through all the suggestions and tips you guys have given me, >> many thanks again for you help. >> >> >> Regards >> >> 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 > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
