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*ASB *(Professional Bio <http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker/bio>) *Technology Services that Maximize Business Results... * On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 1:45 PM, John Cook <[email protected]> wrote: > Speaking of softballs, am I the only one not getting AM emails???? > > > > *John W. Cook* > > *System Administrator* > > *Partnership For Strong Families* > > *5950 NW 1st Place* > > *Gainesville, Fl 32607* > > *Office (352) 244-1610* > > *Cell (352) 215-6944* > > *MCSE, MCP+I, MCTS, CompTIA A+, N+, VSP**4, VTSP4* > > > > *From:* Jonathan Link [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Friday, April 08, 2011 1:44 PM > > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 > > > > 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. Cook > > Systems Administrator > > Partnership for Strong Families > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
