On Tuesday 05 February 2008 09:22, Bob Pierce wrote: > On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 08:55 -0500, Steve Totaro wrote: > > I would go after RAID 5 and redundant power supplies. > > I totally agree on the RAID 5 and redundant power supplies. It would be > irresponsible not to get these.
Dual power supplies are standard, and we do run Raid 1 (Hardware) on the two internal drives. As Drew mentioned Raid 5 is a non starter for true reliable applications. As drive sizes have increased, rebuild times for a failed drive have also increased, leaving you wide open to a catastrophic loss of data should one more disk fail during the rebuild process. As far as the overall specs, we really don't need more then a single dual core proc and 2 GB of Ram, but when you can get dual quads and 8 GB for a few hundred more (or less when at the right time) why not. We have been Dell resellers for a while, and when they have deals, we can get some ridiculous prices. Ron _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz