I'm running a bunch of $300 Dell SC420 servers, with on-motherboard RAID for only two SATA-150 drives. They work great. I have several disks ($80 each) already configured as SPARE, so I can hot-swap any failed drive. The cost to have a spare everything (Power Supply, Fan, and an "extra" SC420 is under $400 - not counting drives).
If you can tolerate only 2 drives (RAID 1), then this is an excellent way to go. Dan -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Imail Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 12:43 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [IMail Forum] new servers I am about to replace one of my servers with a new one. Current one runs SCSI hard drives using hardware mirror. My question is what is your opinion about using SATA drives instead of SCSI. The reason I ask is because of the ease of getting replacement parts when needed for SATA vs SCSI considering having two of everything can get rather expensive. It's not so much the SCSI drives that could be a problem but the mother board should it die. I like the fact that my SuperMicro servers last for years but boy are they expensive to have spares just laying around. Thanks... Mark -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.9.2/54 - Release Date: 7/21/2005 --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses courtesy of Netslyder, Inc.(http://www.netslyder.net)] To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
