Also, if you colo your servers like we do then a hd failure costs a lot of time and money to get the os reloaded vs replacing one disk and having no downtime. ;)
-----Original Message----- From: hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com [mailto:hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] On Behalf Of Adam Nowacki Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 12:42 PM To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list Subject: Re: [hlds] Harddrives which to choose msleeper wrote: > Frankly I don't know why you would want to have a RAID setup for your > game server anyway. Maybe you do something differently than I do but I > don't keep any sensitive or un-backed up data on mine, and even then it > can all be replaced pretty easily. Plugins can be redownloaded, maps can > be reuploaded, configs can be replaced. Adding RAID is just complicating > things unnecessarily. Because another disk is just so cheap compared to the total server price, and you get high reliability and better read performance almost for free. _______________________________________________ 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
