Hi, I agree with that. We do exactly the same.
We're running a 1" server with an 3WARE SATA-controller with two 150 GB Drives from Maxtor. ============================================ Am Donnerstag, 21. Juli 2005 um 18:58 schrieben Sie: > 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: imail_Forum@list.ipswitch.com > 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/ ============================================ -- Mit freundlichen Grüssen -------------------------------------------- Merlin Consulting Martin Schaible Bahnhofstrasse 27 CH-8702 Zollikon Phone: +41 44 391 30 00 Fax: +41 44 391 32 49 Mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.merlinconsulting.ch Support: http://support.merlinconsulting.ch GPS: N47 20.235 E8 34.226 -------------------------------------------- News - Neue Produkte: .:. NOD32 Antivirus System .:. BlueDragon .:. Kiwi Syslog Monitor .:. Paessler GmbH .:. Sawmill Loganalyzer .:. SmarterTools -------------------------------------------- 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/
