i will reply simply because i recently said hardware raid was too expensive.
i said poor private college. every nickel counts here. then you said 17 thousand
dollars. i laughed. apparently you did not read the rest of my post where i said
i had ~2000 users. not 10,000. when it counts, i buy more drives, not a raid
controller.
allan noah
\"Ingo T. Storm\" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Hi,
>
> of course I want to use SW raid for some boxes myself, otherwise I would not
> be on the list. For a dial-in or name server, typically with 2 small
> external scsi harddisks, it\'s just the right \"bang for the buck\".
>
> But I would like to know where the genral assumption that HW raid is \"too
> expensive\" comes from.
>
> I just bought an external array for 30,000 DM, i.e. $ 17,000. including
>
> - Kingston enclosure with two power supplies.
> - 8 hot-pluggable slots for 3.5\" HDs
> - 5.25\" IFT RAID controller (raid 0-5, hot-rebuild, hot-spare)
> - AND 8 18GB-HDs (Seagate or IBM , UW)
>
> assuming that the HDs where close to $800 , the box is at about $10.000. And
> I do not consider this too expensive for what I got. I mean, with SW RAID
> you still need an enclosure fro a couple of thousand bucks. Hot-swapping is
> vital in most areas where you use raid anyway.
>
> Any comments?
>
> Ingo
>
>
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