Re: Hardware Recommendations

Hi all,

One of my personal rules is that whenever someone says they're going to
get a 10K RPM SCSI drive, I always tell them to go 2 x 10K RPM SCSI
drives (half the size each) and do RAID 0.  Or, preferably go 3 x and do
RAID 5.

My point is that 10K RPM drives are nice, but more is better (and
effective) with SCSI.

:)

Regards and best wishes,

Justin Clift


Steve Wolfe wrote:
>
> >     I respectfully disagree with Steve's "disk speed isn't terribly
> > important" -- it can be (and is totally dependent on what you're doing)
> and
> > since you have the on-board U160 with all the dual Athlon boards I've
> seen,
> > you might as well take full advantage of it.. That and you know Seagate
> has
> > those new 15,000 RPM U160 drives out *evil grin*..
>
>   You can't take advantage of U160 without at *least* three disks. ; )
>
>   If you have enough RAM for the cache, and you're not using fsync(), then
> an insert/update doesn't actually hit the disk, it just returns.  The
> kernel can update the disk later at it's leisure.  I'm not sorry that I
> spent all of the money for the large array that I use, it provides
> redundancy that lets me sleep easier - but I can guarantee that I'm not
> using 1/100th of it's potential as far as write capabilities.
>
> steve
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