-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 03/18/08 10:18, Luke S Crawford wrote: > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Or... don't buy sucky h/w in the first place. If you *really* care >> about your data, you spend the extra bucks for quality h/w that has >> a competent support staff behind it. And you pay for an adequate >> backup solution! > > I think most people on this list are not looking to blow a Porsche (or more) > on a netapp or EMC storage appliance. sure, they're great if you've
We just bought 2 Linux clusters with (I think) EVA 5000 SANs. 40 total TB of SCSI drives, I think. Obviously, though, by "we", I don't mean the wife & I. :) > got the scratch, and if your data is really valuable, they might even make > economic sense. But they don't make sense for your average debian user, > who could buy several thousand backup workstations or servers for > the price of one of the aforementioned 'good' raid boxes. > > What we are looking for here is a "good enough" raid solution... something For a given definition of "good enough". OP is at a Uni, and mentioned using 16-24 drives. Thus I get the impression that he needs capacity, speed & reliability. An $800 controller won't add that much on top of the cost of the drives, shelves & power supplies. > that costs significantly less than completely duplicating the $800 server > or workstation in question, (meaning most "good" raid solutions you > speak of are right out.) and that gives a significantly better MBTF > (and/or performance) than just one disk. > > Personally, I run on a mix of single disks and software mirrors... but if > someone knows of a raid card that (along with a redundant disk) doesn't > double the cost of my server and that significantly increases MBTF or > performance over software mirroring, I'm all ears. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Supporting World Peace Through Nuclear Pacification -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFH4IPmS9HxQb37XmcRAmVAAJwM0aDwdMvAs6Fk7x07QBJ3pko7JACg5Iij EIB0Ss3MaULECvtrBwLv5SE= =9nC1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
