> I have heard good thing about 3Ware, but I would suggest looking at the > 8500-4 in combination with Western Digital's Raptor drive > (http://www.tomshardware.com/storage/20030501/index.html). The Raptor is > a 10,000 RPM SATA drive which, combined with the 8500-4 SATA Raid card > should give excellent performance at a great price. I would also look at > Opteron based servers if you are looking for performance for a good > price. > > Regards, > Mike Hillyer > www.vbmysql.com > > > -----Original Message----- > From: David Griffiths [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 10:59 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: RAID hardware suggestions/experience > > > Anyone had any experience with 3Ware 7500-4 IDE RAID or the Promise > SX-6000 > IDE RAID cards? Specifically for Linux. Heard bad things about Promise, > good > about 3Ware. > > David > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Patrick Shoaf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 9:40 AM > Subject: Re: RAID hardware suggestions/experience > > >> I am using 4 120G IDE Drives with an Adaptec IDE RAID Controller on > RedHat >> Linux providing 240G of RAID 5 storage. While not quite as fast as > SCSI, > I >> have found this to work very well. You should be able to pickup a > nice >> dual processor XENON 2.4Ghz system w/1G Ram and IDE RAID loaded with > RedHat >> Linux ES for around $4,000. >> >> At 12:25 PM 6/17/2003, you wrote: >> >Hi there, >> > >> >Our databank with all tables and idices is about 130GB big. The > biggest >> >limitations we encounter are on the I/O side. >> >Therefore we are willing to update our data storage system to a RAID > system >> >(RAID 0+1, RAID 5, or RAID 10). >> > >> >Has anyone experience with such RAID systems? >> >What should we buy? >> > >From whom should we buy (We are located in New York City)? >> >Do you have any experience you want to share? >> > >> >Thank you very much for your help and support! >> > >> >Bernd >> >> >> Patrick J. Shoaf, Systems Engineer >> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> Midmon Internet Services, LLC >> 100 Third Street >> Charleroi, PA 15022 >> http://www.midmon.com >> Phone: 724-483-2400 ext. 105 >> or 888-638-6963 >> Fax: 724-489-4386 >> A significant question remains for SATA: basic drive reliability. Related to that is length of time drive will remain available. A dirty secret of RAID is that when a drive goes it must be replaced you must replace it with the same drive (please..please tell me I'm wrong). So, unless you have a spare in the back you will end up replacing 3 drives (assuming Raid 5). That may be why the WD model has such low capacity compared with the normal IDE drives.
Just my 2 cents worth. William R. Mussatto, Senior Systems Engineer Ph. 909-920-9154 ext. 27 FAX. 909-608-7061 -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
