They do leave their websites up 24x7 so the heat fact plays a mojor part into this. Especially since the drives and servers sit in a closet with improper air flow and cooling.
thanks On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Joseph L. Casale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > While I can surely relate to a company wanting me to do cheap sh!t but > wanting reliability etc etc I can only point you to ASB's famous sig: "Fast, > cheap, reliable. Pick two" > > Those wont be redundant and the performance is very bad (they are for home > owners…). I can't see a DB application being thrilled with the potential > latencies you will likely encounter not to mention the non redundancy of the > disc's and power supplies. Keep in mind the duty cycle of those devices > isn't meant to be 24x7 so they will probably get hot which = fail soon. > > > > Don't envy your task, been there many times. > > > > jlc > > > > > > *From:* MarvinC [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > *Sent:* Wednesday, October 01, 2008 12:28 PM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* An alternate storage solution needed... > > > > I'm looking for an affordable solution to replace a failed disk array. The > array had 7 drives that were configured as a RAID 5, totaling 100GB, and > attached to a webserver. Both power supplies died on the server and now none > of the data on those drives are accessible. This would include the company's > websites. To make things worse the vendor that makes the power suppies, > Martek, is based out of China and don't have any in stock. Unfortunately the > company doesn't have any backups so they've come to grips with the fact that > they'll have to move on without being able to recover or salvage any of that > data. > What I'm trying to do is provide an affordable replacement solution where > the device hooks up to a web server and is seen as an attached drive for > their websites which have MySQL databases. So I'm wondering if anyone have > any opinions on using Shared Network Storage over NAS or SAN devices? From > the looks of it the shared network storage devies fall inline with their > immediate budget whereas the other two are more expensive. > Here are a few devices I've come across: > > LinkStation Live 500GB Shared Network Storage > Cost: $179.00 > http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0256819 > > Iomega(R) StorCenter Network Hard Drive 1TB > Cost: $309.00 > http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0282051 > > > > > > > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
