* Dan Phoenix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010207 15:30] wrote:
>
> > Get a hardware raid card, you can even get a bootable IDE RAID,
> > although hotswap scsi means less downtime.
> >
> > For a project this big you're really being pretty thrifty with the
> > hardware allocated to it. The time you save hacking on the system
> > to fix performance problems could be addressed much quicker by
> > buying somewhat more robust hardware, once that's addressed you
> > can move on to the next project.
> >
> > IDE raid (striping) won't cost more than three to five hundred
> > dollars including the disks you need.
> >
>
> Sounds reasonable...do you have a url to a trustable supplier?
We use BSDi/telenet and they're pretty good:
http://hardware.bsdi.com/cgi-bin/telenet.storefront
Just make sure you specify that you want the rootfs on the RAID as well.
I've heard ASA Computers is pretty good but haven't bought
anything from them yet:
http://www.asacomputers.com/new/pub/html/index.html
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