On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 09:09:36PM -0500, Joel Hammer wrote: >I find the 4 drive limitation of IDE machines quite bothersome. Is there >some way, other than scsi, to overcome this limitation in the linux world? > >Is setting up a scsi system just a matter of installing a scsi adaptor >and then plugging things in (along with the appropriate drivers)? Is it >worth the extra cost? > >Are there easier/better alternatives like firewire/usb peripherals?
SCSI is probably the best bet if you're looking for high performance and reliability. We're doing some experimenting now though with FireWire for things like large ftp sites where things change very infrequently, and access speed is limited by our T1 to the Internet. We're also looking at using external 120GB firewire drives for backups. They're easy to hot-swap, cheap ($200US for a Maxtor drive ane the external chassis), and fast enough for network backups using rsync. Assuming this works well, I plan to have at least two of these drives, one of which is at an off-site co-location site (I'll make the original backup locally, then ship the drive to the co-lo for rsync updates). This way we'll have a local copy for fast recovery in case a machine goes down, and a remote copy in case of major disasters. Right now I'm doing my first network backup from an SCO OpenServer box to a Caldera 3.1.1 Workstation box with a 2.4.20 kernel, with the external Maxtor drive. I'm planning on getting a managed 10/100 ethernet switch with two 10/100/1000 ports, and putting the backup server on the 1000 port to see how things go when I have several machines backing up simultaneously. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ ``The Income Tax has made more Liars out of American people than Golf has.'' Will Rogers _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
