On Mon, 2006-Apr-10 14:11:46 +0200, Michael Schuh wrote: >so that i have sign a Solution with cheap HW, ok this cheap HW is not very >stable and never so performant like the right Hardware, but if i use >this solution, >so i can relative fast replace defect items with new HW.
You probably can't replace defective hardware so fast that the users don't notice. They will probably also notice when a system crash garbles the filesystem. Based on your comments of low cost and massive size, I presume you can't afford a proper backup solution either. This is a recipe for disaster if the data is valuable. >> Do not get a Silicon Image SATA controller. >Why not? Read the mailing lists - they are full of problems with them. If you value your data you will not use Sil controller. >> At the very least, get a multiport SATA RAID controller with a decent-sized >> RAM cache of its own and an internal battery to keep the drives going until >> that cache can be flushed. As well as an external UPS, right...? >> >I can also agree with you.......but the management......get not my friends >with this....... :-)) They will be even less your friends when your cheap-n-nasty solution loses some valuable files. -- Peter Jeremy _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"