Yeah I have to agree, this whole RAID thing is a bit overkill. Your hard drive dies? Pay your host the $20 to replace your drive and re-install. It's a game server, it will take like 30 minutes.
On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 06:51 -0700, Robert Whelan wrote: > Its a game server...lol 10K SAS 146GB would do you fine. Otherwise a WD Black > > I have 13 servers easily running off ours (Dual Xeon 5335 Quad Core > Clovertown Processors) > > Create an Image, you can always upgrade if needed... > > > > ________________________________ > From: "xt...@shaw.ca" <xt...@shaw.ca> > To: xt...@shaw.ca; Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list > <hlds@list.valvesoftware.com> > Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 8:01:25 AM > Subject: Re: [hlds] Harddrives which to choose > > Ack, replying to my reply, it seems I went off on a different tnagent than > what was asked. > > You have a fairly *beefy server. I would not make the disk subsystem the > choke point for future growth. I would also not go overboard with disks or > expensive RAID sets. I would recommend 10K SAS (146/300GB) in a simple > RAID1. I would start with some perf counters Disk Read, Disk Writes, Disk > Queue, CPU and you can grow your server knowing the impact as you grow. You > can always add more disks later. This is, of course, just my opinion and > opinions will vary upon everyones current experince. > > Any idea how many servers and expected clients/connections? Or did I miss > this in the thread? > > X > > > > Sent from my BlackBerry device on the Rogers Wireless Network > > -----Original Message----- > From: xt...@shaw.ca > > Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:14:37 > To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list<hlds@list.valvesoftware.com> > Subject: Re: [hlds] Harddrives which to choose > > > IMO, RAID1 would be sufficient especially with the IOPs current SAS/SCSI or > even SATA drives provide. If RAID5 is required for critical uptime then I > would go as far as to suggest RAID6 just because of the shorter rebuild time > and higher success rate for rebuilds as there are 2 parity stripes to build > from. There are fairly cheap SAS/SATA cards (Adaptec/3ware/Areca) as a > solution but are the extra avalable writes required? RAID10 is just too > expensive a solution for an app that has small writes/reads. RAID1, IMO, is > sufficient...why not use VMware to copy/move a VM each night off a JBOD or > RAID1 so, in a pinch, downtime could be reduced to minutes, depending on > hardware failure point... Without the performance degradation of disk > rebuilds. > > > Sent from my BlackBerry device on the Rogers Wireless Network > > -----Original Message----- > From: Donnie Newlove <donnie.newl...@gmail.com> > > Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:10:44 > To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list<hlds@list.valvesoftware.com> > Subject: Re: [hlds] Harddrives which to choose > > > Is there really any reason to use expensive setups when it comes to > storage? The harddrive is barley used at all except when the server > change level but the clients have to do that as well so it's not like > they have to wait for the server, the server will be finished in time > even with an average consumer drive, there is no reason it would not > be. > > On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 12:50 PM, mdma <pmadma...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Hi everyone, this is my 1st post here, i usually sit back and just read > > what's going on, scanning it for useful information. > > I need some help regarding hard drives. I'm going to be running a dedicated > > server soon and want to know which you guys think are better for the job. > > The box will be running at first a couple of websites, small mysql > > databases, and then of course mainly game servers. > > The websites and database etc will be moved from this box to another down > > the line, and it will then only run game servers. > > My Box Specs are 1U > > 2 x Quad Core Xeons > > 8GB DDR2 > > 250GB Seagate CUDA ES, 7200rpm 32mb cache, with NCQ hard drives. > > > > Should i be worried about the performance of these hard drives under load, > > running multiple game servers etc, or should i upgrade them to Seagate > > Cheetah 15k rpm SAS drives, or 10k rpm Raptors. > > I have been told by some that the 10k rpm Raptors perform quite well, but i > > would like the opinions of you guys to help me decide on the upgrade path. > > I would hate to put all this time into setting everything up, only to have > > the hard drives cause me issues down the track. > > > > Many Thanks > > > > Roy Jonas > > > >_______________________________________________ > > 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 > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
