We're building 2U servers with dual processor tyan main boards and built-in
promise IDE raid with fantastic results so far... haven't seen a problem
with large files either. Can you be more specific on which hardware to avoid
with built-in IDE raid?
Thanks,
_M
| -----Original Message-----
| From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of MIke Mckay
| Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 5:38 PM
| To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] IDE vs SCSI, which OS?
|
|
| I have tried integrated IDE raid but found it to be at best buggy, mostly
| noticeable with large files. Which although nobody should be
| mailing 200 meg
| + files it isn't really a good sign you woulbn't want to buy a
| car that was
| only safe to drive at under 70 mph and blew up at 71 mph.
|
| I then got an off board card (AMI I think) which supported full raid 5
| rather than just 0,1 or 0 & 1 ( sometimes called raid10 by some
| manufacturers ) This worked flawlessly, however it does require 4
| identical
| drives for raid 5.
|
| The ABIT VP6 (I think) is a nice cheapy board and can support 8
| ide devices
| which gives you raid 0,1 and 10, plus 4 ata 33 drive support,
| but is a dual
| socket 370 board for about �100 quid you could try that in a test
| enviroment
| and if not happy add an off board raid card, other than that a good dual
| board for the money. Not bad for dual CPU and raid.
|
| For the system I used IBM deskstars (30 GB), these are slightly more than
| other makes but I really rate them, normally I go with good old plodders
| maxtor mainly for their advanced replacement policy which is great where
| large drives are involved. And to cap it all off aluminium removable drive
| bays which allowed hotswapping with software help and worked with
| all speeds
| upto ATA 100 and 10,000 rpm (these can be tricky to track down).
|
| The last item was a 5th drive for ghosting the finished build
| onto for quick
| recovery should two drives or the raid card choose to fail to swap the
| machine over to single drive operation in about 5 minutes due to the hot
| swap bays.
|
| This machine ran and still does flawlessly all for sub �1000.
|
| Mike
|
|
| ----- Original Message -----
| From: "Dave Parfrey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 10:04 PM
| Subject: [IMail Forum] IDE vs SCSI, which OS?
|
|
| > We're currently running IMail on the same box as IIS, and
| rapidly running
| > out of disk space, so we're thinking about moving IMail to its
| own box. We
| > have a single domain, about 800 users, most of whom use the web
| interface
| to
| > read their mail (hence lots of saved messages). I don't have
| any stats on
| > number of messages per day, but we're not stressing the server at all.
| >
| > - We're currently running Raid 5 with SCSI drives. I was thinking about
| > getting a couple of 60+ GB IDE drives and mirroring them on the new box.
| Has
| > anyone done this? How does it compare with SCSI?
| >
| > - Does IMail require a "server" OS? We're currently running
| Win2K server.
| If
| > IMail's the only thing running on it, can we run Win2K pro?
| >
| > Your thoughts are much appreciated.
| >
| > Thanks - Dave
| >
| >
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