Yes. RAID is simple > Go into you're RAID Bios, press the magic "RESTORE" Button (that's what it is in my case...)
As for the person who said: "RAID10 is just too expensive a solution for an app that has small writes/read" I recently bought a RAID Card for my dad's corp (for the machine that polls all the other 7 stores, some 8 hrs away by car, to collect and update info for a WINDOWS 98 computer. It was compatable with up to Vista. I bought 2 and used one for my system. It was a total of ... OMG... $18 with shipping! And it supports 0, 1, and 10. On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 7:08 PM, msleeper <[email protected]> wrote: > Right because restoring from RAID is a walk in the park. > > > On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 18:00 -0500, Cc2iscooL wrote: > > But that's too much work for us lazy server admins. > > > > On 4/29/09, msleeper <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Yeah I have to agree, this whole RAID thing is a bit overkill. Your > hard > > > drive dies? Pay your host the $20 to replace your drive and re-install. > > > It's a game server, it will take like 30 minutes. > > > > > > On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 06:51 -0700, Robert Whelan wrote: > > >> Its a game server...lol 10K SAS 146GB would do you fine. Otherwise a > WD > > >> Black > > >> > > >> I have 13 servers easily running off ours (Dual Xeon 5335 Quad Core > > >> Clovertown Processors) > > >> > > >> Create an Image, you can always upgrade if needed... > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> ________________________________ > > >> From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > > >> To: [email protected]; Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list > > >> <[email protected]> > > >> Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 8:01:25 AM > > >> Subject: Re: [hlds] Harddrives which to choose > > >> > > >> Ack, replying to my reply, it seems I went off on a different tnagent > than > > >> what was asked. > > >> > > >> You have a fairly *beefy server. I would not make the disk subsystem > the > > >> choke point for future growth. I would also not go overboard with > disks > > >> or expensive RAID sets. I would recommend 10K SAS (146/300GB) in a > simple > > >> RAID1. I would start with some perf counters Disk Read, Disk Writes, > Disk > > >> Queue, CPU and you can grow your server knowing the impact as you > grow. > > >> You can always add more disks later. This is, of course, just my > opinion > > >> and opinions will vary upon everyones current experince. > > >> > > >> Any idea how many servers and expected clients/connections? Or did I > miss > > >> this in the thread? > > >> > > >> X > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> Sent from my BlackBerry device on the Rogers Wireless Network > > >> > > >> -----Original Message----- > > >> From: [email protected] > > >> > > >> Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:14:37 > > >> To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing > > >> list<[email protected]> > > >> Subject: Re: [hlds] Harddrives which to choose > > >> > > >> > > >> IMO, RAID1 would be sufficient especially with the IOPs current > SAS/SCSI > > >> or even SATA drives provide. If RAID5 is required for critical uptime > > >> then I would go as far as to suggest RAID6 just because of the shorter > > >> rebuild time and higher success rate for rebuilds as there are 2 > parity > > >> stripes to build from. There are fairly cheap SAS/SATA cards > > >> (Adaptec/3ware/Areca) as a solution but are the extra avalable writes > > >> required? RAID10 is just too expensive a solution for an app that has > > >> small writes/reads. RAID1, IMO, is sufficient...why not use VMware to > > >> copy/move a VM each night off a JBOD or RAID1 so, in a pinch, downtime > > >> could be reduced to minutes, depending on hardware failure point... > > >> Without the performance degradation of disk rebuilds. > > >> > > >> > > >> Sent from my BlackBerry device on the Rogers Wireless Network > > >> > > >> -----Original Message----- > > >> From: Donnie Newlove <[email protected]> > > >> > > >> Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:10:44 > > >> To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing > > >> list<[email protected]> > > >> Subject: Re: [hlds] Harddrives which to choose > > >> > > >> > > >> Is there really any reason to use expensive setups when it comes to > > >> storage? The harddrive is barley used at all except when the server > > >> change level but the clients have to do that as well so it's not like > > >> they have to wait for the server, the server will be finished in time > > >> even with an average consumer drive, there is no reason it would not > > >> be. > > >> > > >> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 12:50 PM, 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 > > >> _______________________________________________ > > >> 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 > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > 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
