On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, at 6:49am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > That being said, SCSI and Fibre Channel are built from the ground up for a > single controller to manage multiple (>2) drives. IDE (in any variety) > isn't. I doubt dropping a RAID5 ATA array would significantly improve on > that issue.
FWIW, "good" ATA RAID controllers use a dedicated IDE channel and controller per drive, and present the logical volumes as SCSI devices, eliminating most of the brain damages that IDE has. That being said... > Personally, if you're going to the expense of running 9 Exchange servers, > at least 3 of which are Enterprise Edition, I find it hard to rationalize > buying low end hardware. Total agreement. Hardware's cheap compared to software licenses, performance problems, and downtime. -- Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | The opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do | | not represent the views or policy of any other person or organization. | | All information is provided without warranty of any kind. | _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
