Re: FN-FORUM: SCSI Server Drives

date posted 23rd January 2006 14:56

Andy Macnaughton-Jones wrote:

> This is for a new server for a client and some of the options I'm
> looking at have SCSI raid on board and are either supplied with just one
> SCSI drive or have no drives. So either way to get a RAID 0/1 setup I
> need to add at least one drive.
>
> If I'm buying an HP Server I don't want to be buggering about buying
> overpriced HP products when I get a more generic SCSI drive for much
> less.
>
> My other option is a SATA RAID array (hardware)
>
Hi

If its a customer server you need some form of raid.

There is little or no excuse for not having RAID these days, with low
cost SATA drives and software RAID available on os's such as Linux.

I know hard drive manufacturers quote impressive MTF figures but having
run a small dedicated server farm, IDE hard drives fail depressingly
often ;o)

But if the budget runs to 2 x SCSI drives plus a decent RAID card so
much the better.


Paul

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