On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 4:49 PM, Bob Hetzel<b...@case.edu> wrote: > > > John Drescher wrote: >> >> On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Bob Hetzel<b...@case.edu> wrote: >>> >>> Has anybody tinkered around with spooling backups on an SSD (aka solid >>> state drive) or a raid-0 pair of them for higher performance? >>> >> >> I spool to a 4 drive sata raid 0 but since I only have a single >> gigabit nic connection the file system performance is not the limiting >> factor. >> >> John > > I'm trying to set up an LTO-3/LTO-4 setup and modern fast (15k rpm) > conventional hard drives are > $500 each though it seems. > > For LTO-2 and below this is far cheaper since the tape drive speeds are so > much lower but I'd like to keep the tape drive writing at > 60 MB/sec. In > addition I'd like to keep concurrency up so one slow backup doesn't drag the > prolong the others as badly. > How about 2 to 4 150 or 300GB velociraptors in raid 0.
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=459 The 300GB models are around $200 USA. Much faster than a 7200RPM sata drive especially when it comes to seeks. For SSD it will be very expensive to do that unless you have a small spool area. -- John M. Drescher ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
