Re: [lopsa-tech] Looking for good comparison of SAS Drives

2014-05-17 Thread Dan Ritter
On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 07:31:40PM -0400, john boris wrote: > Thanks for the quick replies. Some more info. I am backing up 22 SCO boxes > that have 9gb total space each. I also have 6+ LINUX servers with 75gb > drives. The SCO Master backups are not 9GB total but more like 4GB since > the system w

Re: [lopsa-tech] Looking for good comparison of SAS Drives

2014-05-16 Thread john boris
Thanks for the quick replies. Some more info. I am backing up 22 SCO boxes that have 9gb total space each. I also have 6+ LINUX servers with 75gb drives. The SCO Master backups are not 9GB total but more like 4GB since the system was originally built to run on a 1GB drive. I have to stay with the

Re: [lopsa-tech] Looking for good comparison of SAS Drives

2014-05-16 Thread Doug Hughes
If you have a 24x7 work cycle, avoid the green drives. They won't last. Red drives are reasonable and there are a lot of articles out there on the web about people using the red drives in production for 24x7. They generally have a 3 year warranty. If you expect to be doing active caching or other h

Re: [lopsa-tech] Looking for good comparison of SAS Drives

2014-05-16 Thread Dan Ritter
On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 03:23:13PM -0400, john boris wrote: > I have to rebuild my remote Backup Server (A place for my servers to backup > to hard dirves). I currently have a LINUX system with a RAID 5 array of > 300GB SAS drives (Total 1.5TB) which has to be increased to 4TB or larger > (sorta de

Re: [lopsa-tech] Looking for good comparison of SAS Drives

2014-05-16 Thread John Stoffel
john> I have to rebuild my remote Backup Server (A place for my john> servers to backup to hard dirves). I currently have a LINUX john> system with a RAID 5 array of 300GB SAS drives (Total 1.5TB) john> which has to be increased to 4TB or larger (sorta depends on the john> cost) We are virtualizin

[lopsa-tech] Looking for good comparison of SAS Drives

2014-05-16 Thread john boris
I have to rebuild my remote Backup Server (A place for my servers to backup to hard dirves). I currently have a LINUX system with a RAID 5 array of 300GB SAS drives (Total 1.5TB) which has to be increased to 4TB or larger (sorta depends on the cost) We are virtualizing 22 of my servers which curren