Good point. This means he should also avoid the Pentium and AMD chipsets, and stick with Xeon, unless it is already on sun or other higher-end iron (er,silion)... more reliable mfg processes and QA.
ciao Ben PS - should we also assume that EFN is in a slightly different place as far as available funds, than most other ISP's? Certainly there might be money for a new SCSI system, but EFN has a history of being shoe-string, whatever will work (ie, starting out under the stairwell) -- not that other ISP's don't secretly do this, we just know more about EFN... and they might be ready to take a scuzzy plunge. ( = Nu-world's mail server is[old-]dog-slow, IMO = / BTW, Are most of the customers on dialup at EFN? On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 11:52:11 -0400 "Grigsby, Garl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | | <snip> latest firmware with the card then things tend to work better. | </snip> | | See the thing is when you are setting up a core service, like | email hosting, you do not want things to "work better", you want | them to work flawlessly. I don't mind messing around with things | like IDE raid on a workstation, as long as it is not a critical | one, but when it comes to something that has to work all of the | time, then you go with a time tested and trusted solution. SCSI | raid has been around for a long time and it works very, very | well. SCSI disks are built better than their IDE counterparts. ... | Yes they cost a lot more per GB, but you get what you pay for. | These disks will be seeing a lot of use. They will be on | 24/7/365 for 5 years under steady use. Larry said he was looking | for a system that would be useable for 5 years with near zero | downtime. That means you go with the most reliable components | you can. Will it cost more? Of course. Now if he had said, we | need 95% uptime, then maybe bringing the system down to replace | IDE disks would be OK. | | Sorry, if I seem to be beating this to death, but as far as I am | concerned IDE is not an option. I've seen too many IDE drives die | (remember the IBM 75GXP?) to trust them on something like a mail | server. | | Garl | _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
