On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, JDW wrote:
We are betting a large part of our business on the performance and
stability of this server. (And we sadly cannot afford Sun
hardware.) We can't use anything that's going to have problems like
hangs on disk failures or removals, like I've read about some people
having as I've searched around here. It's got to 100% work for
production datacenter usage.
Thanks for any advice! We have pretty much got the server design
locked down except for this.
So the main thing that you have locked down is that you won't use Sun
hardware because it is expensive and locks up, but you will bet your
business on cheap brand-X SATA hardware?
Keep in mind that usually people only post experiences if they have
encountered a problem and need help. Satisfied users rarely post
experiences.
If your storage controller is truely mission critical then you should
be using several adaptors with a careful split of redundant
components. Simple mirror configurations work great for this,
although they are expensive. Make sure that you are using a system
with ECC memory.
Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
[email protected], http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/
GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
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