Re: [PLUG] Server Recommendation

[Chris Hedemark <chris@yonderway.com>]

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On Sunday, January 12, 2003, at 10:40 AM, Kam Salisbury wrote:

> Absolutely, a different category of user indeed. I respect your 
> opinion. I
> do not feel that enterprise level hardware is the best choice for all
> applications, it really is a matter of fiscal and design flexibility.

Having recently visited Gabe at work, and seen the kind of storage he 
is responsible for maintaining, I can really respect where he is coming 
from.  I think y'all are approaching the same problem from totally 
different perspectives.  The kind of stuff Gabe is working with is 
pretty high end and sexy (and needs to be).  Software RAID on a couple 
of big IDE disks would be crushed where he works.

I can really see using big IDE disks on servers for a small business.  
But software RAID is where I draw the line.  Software RAID is a kluge, 
and much more difficult to recover from in case of an actual failure 
than any decent hardware array.  Not to mention the drastic reduction 
in overall performance (which might not be noticed on a small 200GB 
file server for a local law firm, but would surely be noticed on an 
array of a few dozen TB being hit by very I/O intensive relentless 
jobs).

Chris Hedemark .. Prospect Park, PA .. http://yonderway.com
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