On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 11:41:50PM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
Usually when people talk about servers with 600 gigabytes of data its
fair to assume that their will be a considerable load on them, clearly
thats not the case here .. so I'm sure IDE will be just fine.
500Gb - RAID-5 means I
i'd like to do it via dabs.com, because their interface is useable and
i've not personally had any problems with them. i'll pick only in-stock
stuff because i understand that they can be slacker than they advertise
when it comes to re-stocking. jo would hopefully oversee the process so i
don't
On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, you wrote:
[buying a hard disk]
Anyone know of any good sources of cheap, BIG hard disks atm? Like in the
70 to 100Gb range, IDE? Speed not an issue, reliability is as these are
for my server. I need^Wwant six, and would rather not pay the 250-odd quid
for
On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Robin Szemeti wrote:
scsi multithreads, IDE doesn't.. this makes quite a difference on
multi-process applications .. esp. servers
I will vouch for this having just loaded a ~1Gb database on my laptop - it
takes about 2-3 times longer on IDE here than it would on an
On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 07:02:59PM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, David Cantrell:
Anyone know of any good sources of cheap, BIG hard disks atm? Like in the
70 to 100Gb range, IDE? Speed not an issue, reliability is as these are
for my server. I need^Wwant six, and
On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, you wrote:
No, the drives are frequently exactly the same mechanics with a different
board. Anyway, by reliable I mean "not sold by some dodgy bloke in a
computer fair who threw them down the stairs a few times" and. AFAICT SCSI
costs more because you're paying for the
At 22:17 25/03/2001, you wrote:
unless anyone has any arguments, i'll buy a fast, reliable largish hard
drive and lots of memory (i understand it's cheap at the moment) for
penderel (the computer) this week.
i'd like to do it via dabs.com, because their interface is useable and
i've not
