Re: Hardware for SBS 2003?
- From: "Bill" <billyg1943@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 22:18:26 +1000
Thanks for the feedback, people. I feel better able to propose a robust,
well performing solution. I am going to look at Dell and HP hardware. I
have been happy with support from both of these vendors over the years.
Anyone got preferred models from them? I have a dream client who
understands how important it is to get things right and will find the bucks
to fund a solution if he is satisfied it makes good business sense. Having
said that, he is very sharp about matters IT and will want justification for
any proposed solution.
"Leythos" <void@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> In article <#JsLIDI1FHA.3568@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, bogus@xxxxxxxxxxx
> says...
>> Most people point out that SATA and SCSI are just about equal in speed
>> these
>> days. What they fail to mention is the basic design of SCSI vs. IDE, upon
>> which SATA is built. SCSI drives are designed to be durable for longer
>> periods of time when accessed for reads and writes than IDE/SATA can
>> deliver.
>
> Greg, that use to be true, but I can buy SATA drives with the SAME MTBF
> as the SCSI drives. Sure, there are cheap SATA Drives, sure, there are
> cheap SCSI drives, but, you can buy quality SATA drives too.
>
>> Over time, SCSI is more reliable from a design perspective.
>
> Nope, not any more. SATA drives, the good ones, have the same MTBF as
> most of the good SCSI drives, we're not talking about the cheap boxed
> SATA drives you get at walmart now.
>
> From a design stance, since they both support HOT-SWAP, both have speed,
> both have Hardware RAID controller cards available (with memory and
> CPU), it's a toss-up.
>
>> Depending upon client needs, I usually hardware-mirror the SCSI OS
>> drives,
>> then another hardware mirror SCSI set for data on light duty servers, or
>> RAID5 with hot-swap for data on heavy duty servers.
>
> Yep, same here, I do a Mirror for the OS, a Mirror for the transaction
> logs, and a RAID 5 (5~6 drives) for the Data Array.
>
> Take another look at the commercial class SATA drives, you might also
> want to look at the IDE/SATA RAID cards that are on the market - I've
> got 1.3TB of space using a Promise SX6000 IDE RAID controller card and
> the IDE (yes, I said IDE) drives are hot-swappable. The servers running
> that config have been up for years.
>
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