You're right, I'm retarded. On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 11:28 PM, Matt Drzewiecki <mjdrz...@mtu.edu> wrote:
> What he meant to say is RAID 0 > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Lane Eckley" <l...@hypernia.com> > To: "Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list" < > hlds@list.valvesoftware.com> > Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 12:19:31 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern > Subject: Re: [hlds] Harddrives which to choose > > Ok, I will bite, how does RAID 1 increase the chance of dataloss? > > -----Original Message----- > From: hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com > [mailto:hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] On Behalf Of Yaakov Smith > Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 12:14 AM > To: 'Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list' > Subject: Re: [hlds] Harddrives which to choose > > Raid1 increases the chance of data loss. > > -----Original Message----- > From: hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com > [mailto:hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] On Behalf Of Adam Nowacki > Sent: Tuesday, 28 April 2009 12:56 PM > To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list > Subject: Re: [hlds] Harddrives which to choose > > Just remember it is only a game server that will read some data every > now and then (and almost entirely on map change), not a database server > doing hundreds of transactions a second. Two 7200rpm drives in software > raid1 will be more than enough and sit idle most of the time. > > mdma wrote: > > Thanks for your response too, all suggestions or ideas are welcome and > > greatly appreciated everyone. > > We are trying to future proof ourselves, and to minimise any hiccups that > > could be caused by slower SATA drives. > > Hence the question about fast 10krpm sata's or 15krpm SAS drives, we are > > still leaning towards SAS even though they are > > a bit expensive. > > If it means we run into less problems, down the track when the box does > get > > more of a load on it, we 'll probably go for it(SAS hdd's now rather than > > later). > > I really cant see the point of spending more money now on sata's that > will > > > probably evenutally have to be upgraded to SAS drives. > > The money would be better spent now on just buying good quality fast > drives > > and a nice 3ware controller. > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > > __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature > database 4038 (20090427) __________ > > The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. > > http://www.eset.com > > > > __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature > database 4038 (20090427) __________ > > The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. > > http://www.eset.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > -- > Matt Drzewiecki > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
