I play on 5 different teams now, I could easily add some more!! On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Jonathan Link <[email protected]>wrote:
> There's only so much of your day that can be taken up by softball. > > On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 1:36 PM, Don Ely <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Why are you trying to ruin my retirement? >> >> >> On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 10:34 AM, Jonathan Link >> <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> I thought we'd disabused you of the notion that you need a [high >>> end] SAN? >>> >>> Granted the high end ones are nice and they have their uses, but your >>> just looking to store files on it. Are you going to virtualize all your >>> servers, rely on Vmotion or some other tool to ensure high availability, or >>> do you need to provide data access to a large number of disparate servers? >>> Consider looking at some of the lower end offerings from Synology and Qnap >>> (heard good things), and avoid Drobo (heard not so good things) and stay >>> away from Buffalo (don't touch that, it's pure evil). >>> >>> This "project" has been on your dockett for over a year now, hasn't it? >>> Awaiting funding? The Synology and Qnap offerings are pretty affordable, >>> and get you into iSCSI access realm. Also, whatever happened to your >>> project about setting up your own storage server? With Windows Server 2008 >>> R2 having access to the iSCSI target software MS recently released, that >>> becomes an option now, too. >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 12:55 PM, John Aldrich < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Yeah.... I was keeping that in mind... Very good points to consider, >>>> too. >>>> :-) Mostly just going to be storing stuff that is primarily used for >>>> reference and things like that. At least that's how we're using our file >>>> server now. Very little "writing" going on, but a lot of "reading" of >>>> files. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:[email protected]] >>>> Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 12:47 PM >>>> To: NT System Admin Issues >>>> Subject: RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 >>>> >>>> If you're using Exchange 2010 then you're still not going to be pushing >>>> a lot of IOPS. It could be more of an issue if you had a SQL or >>>> intensive ERP app etc. >>>> >>>> It isn't black and white IMO. Buy a SAN like an Equallogic and all your >>>> disks are in one big RAID set. Buy a dumber SAN like an MD3000i and you >>>> can have as few or as many RAID sets as your physical disks support, buy >>>> a P4000 and your nodes give you redundancy as does your RAID level, so >>>> you see what I mean, it isn't a one size fits all thing really. >>>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: John Aldrich [mailto:[email protected]] >>>> Sent: 08 April 2011 17:42 >>>> To: NT System Admin Issues >>>> Subject: RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 >>>> >>>> Well, I don't think we'll have a whole lot of IOPS, unless / until I >>>> bring email in-house, in which case I might just have it on it's own >>>> dedicated server with plenty of disk space on-board and back that up to >>>> the SAN. :-) >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:[email protected]] >>>> Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 12:24 PM >>>> To: NT System Admin Issues >>>> Subject: RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 >>>> >>>> You need to weigh up price vs. performance needs vs. risk tolerance. >>>> >>>> RAID6 is fantastic for data reliability, but if your workload is write >>>> intensive you're pretty screwed if you go with RAID6. >>>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: John Aldrich [mailto:[email protected]] >>>> Sent: 08 April 2011 17:13 >>>> To: NT System Admin Issues >>>> Subject: RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 >>>> >>>> Would you prefer RAID6 or RAID10? Practically, what would you accept -- >>>> RAID 5, RAID 6, what? Just trying to think ahead for when I have a >>>> chance to order a SAN. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:[email protected]] >>>> Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 12:06 PM >>>> To: NT System Admin Issues >>>> Subject: RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 >>>> >>>> Our new servers are ordered that way. >>>> >>>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:[email protected]] >>>> Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 3:16 PM >>>> To: NT System Admin Issues >>>> Subject: RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 >>>> >>>> IF your controller supports it, ADG (RAID6) is even better than RAID5 + >>>> spare, IMO. >>>> >>>> -sc >>>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:[email protected]] >>>> Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 2:43 PM >>>> To: NT System Admin Issues >>>> Subject: RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 >>>> >>>> I've gotten so paranoid about this kind of situation happening here that >>>> I have two hotspares in my servers. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> John Hornbuckle >>>> MIS Department >>>> Taylor County School District >>>> www.taylor.k12.fl.us >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: John Cook [mailto:[email protected]] >>>> Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 1:03 PM >>>> To: NT System Admin Issues >>>> Subject: Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 >>>> >>>> No hot spare. >>>> John W. Cook >>>> Systems Administrator >>>> Partnership for Strong Families >>>> >>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>> From: Steven M. Caesare <[email protected]> >>>> To: NT System Admin Issues <[email protected]> >>>> Sent: Thu Apr 07 13:01:32 2011 >>>> Subject: RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 >>>> >>>> If you don't have a hot spare then NO! >>>> >>>> If you do have a hot spare, then it should have kicked in when the >>>> previous drive failed, and you would currently not be seeing any >>>> rebuilds with the drive you already replaced... >>>> >>>> I'd recommend against it. >>>> >>>> -sc >>>> >>>> > -----Original Message----- >>>> > From: John Cook [mailto:[email protected]] >>>> > Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 12:58 PM >>>> > To: NT System Admin Issues >>>> > Subject: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 >>>> > >>>> > So I have a Dell 2850 with 6 drives in raid 5 and one completely >>>> failed and >>>> > another is predicted to according to the OpenManage software. I >>>> replaced >>>> > the failed one and it's rebuilding but I was wondering if anyone has >>>> an >>>> > opinion on whether or not I can replace the suspect drive before the >>>> other >>>> > one completes it's rebuild as this is a remote office and I really >>>> don't want to >>>> > drive back out here just to swap a drive out. >>>> > John W. 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