On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 1:17 AM, Todd And Margo Chester <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hmmmmmm. Never had a bad hardware RAID controller. Had several > mechanical hard drives go bad. Lord knows I have. The worst were these "they fell of my uncle's truck in southeast Asia" adapters with the chip numbers apparently burned off them, pretending to the kernel that they were an Adaptec chipset. They didn't even fit properly in the cases, due to badly machined and mounted mounting plates. I managed to get those shipped back as unacceptable: any cost savings in getting cheaper hardware faster was completely wasted in the testing failures and the "just wedge them in!!!" and resulting failures as the cards popped loose when the systems warmed up. I've also dealt with some high performance disk controller failures in bleeding edge hardware. It's why I tend to avoid bleeding edge hardware: let someone who needs that bleeding edge debug it for me. > Anyone have an opinion(s) on SSD's in a small work group server? They're very expensive for what is, usually, unnecessary though large performance gains. For certain high performance proxy or database performance, they're invaluable. Monitoring system performance for them can get..... a little weird. I've seen system loads go over 150 on SL 6 compatible systems, thought the systems were still active and responsive and performing well.
