On 07/31/2012 07:49 PM, Todd O'Bryan wrote: > Do people have suggestions for the best kinds of drives to use in > servers? My lab is all fat clients and I have /home and the rest of / > on separate physical drives. I guess that means that the server has a > little bit less work to do than a thin client server, but disk access > still seems to be a bottleneck in my lab. > > I'll take well-researched views or just off the cuff anecdotal advice. > Since I only have one lab, I only buy a drive every couple of years > and feel like I'm just taking a shot in the dark.
On the anecdotal side... I run a few servers and a few dozen fat desktops. In the past 10 years I have replaced the majority (as in >50%) of the "server grade" drives and one or two desktop drives. I had a bad batch of WD RE2 drives where all but one of the six drives in the system failed within the 5 year warranty period. I even had a number of the drives which were replaced under warranty also fail again under warranty. I also had 3 of four the Seagate ES drives in two other machines fail so the problem doesn't just happen to one manufacturer. Bottom line: I couldn't find any compelling reason to buy the enterprise grade drives, other than perhaps the warranty. I don't think all enterprise drives are bad but I also don't think they are anything special. The last server I built used a RAID1 array of desktop drives and has been entirely trouble free. What I would _highly_ recommend is using a variety of drive models/manufacturers of similar capacity to build any array rather than all one model/manufacturer. Jeff ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
