RE: FN-FORUM: SCSI Server Drives

date posted 23rd January 2006 15:07

Absolutely, I'm not going to get a non-RAID option (and I'm not keen on
software RAID options either), so it's either a MOBO that has RAID
already (SCSI / SATA / IDE - don't care *really*, SATA pref) or a RAID
card. Client won't go to RAID5 and it's probably not necessary, I find a
0/1 Mirror is just fine - gives that resilliance when one drive crashes
and you can power down, stick a new on in, clone and off you go. Had it
happen on my server in the office once and it was relatively harmless.

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From: [EMAIL REMOVED] [EMAIL REMOVED] On Behalf Of Paul
Lee
Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 3:32 PM
To: Andy Macnaughton-Jones
Subject: Re: FN-FORUM: SCSI Server Drives


Andy Macnaughton-Jones wrote:

> This is for a new server for a client and some of the options I'm=20
> looking at have SCSI raid on board and are either supplied with just=20
> one SCSI drive or have no drives. So either way to get a RAID 0/1=20
> setup I need to add at least one drive.
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> If I'm buying an HP Server I don't want to be buggering about buying=20
> overpriced HP products when I get a more generic SCSI drive for much=20
> less.
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> My other option is a SATA RAID array (hardware)
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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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