Quoting Shachar Shemesh, from the post of Mon, 11 Nov: > Last I heard, SCSI were the ONLY way to go for busy servers. I think > we can round up the money from the IGLU users quite easily to buy a > proper SCSI array. I'm not sure whether RAID anything is really > necessary (not counting RAID-0), as the data in the disks is not > maintained on our servers, and can be reconstructed in case of a > disaster. The extra disk space will be more valuable to us than the > extra reliability.
true, though the new 8meg-cached WD are quite good for our needs, and the price difference per disk of $200 vs. $600-800 makes IDE a winner... if not RAID-5, then two disks at a striping setup will do OK, and we define logical volumes with EVMS for each mirror and extend each when needed. still... anyone knows who we talk to in Ligad? (and if they are still employed there... :) -- Movie event of the year Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ This post is encrypted twice with ROT-13. Documenting or attempting to crack this encryption is illegal.
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