Kevin,
You did not state the OS you will be using. If it is a flavor of LINUX them 3ware 
makes a ISA card that will handle disk drives like they were SCSI drives. You save the 
high cost of disks and spend it on the card. But I bought 2- 40 GIG WD drives last 
week for $109.00 each and put them in my Dell OptiPlex desk top as a test but running 
Linux. Total disk space 90 GIG in the box. Partitioned the drives at 8 GIG partitions. 
Real fast queries using LMT and Partitioning of the tables and indexes.
www.3ware.com   product name ESCALADE
ROR mª¿ªm

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I was thinking the 18's where a better idea now that everyone agrees.
However, I can't go with more than 4 drives unfortunately, this is on a Dell
Precision 410.  I could try and add an additional scsi adapter, but I am not
sure that I would have a place for the drive, unless I went external.
        Also, this is purely a development box, it's not like I need ultimate
performance, it's just a bunch of developers that will be complaining and I
can just blaim their code.  I will not be implementing any sort of raid
either.  Thanks again for the advice!!
Kev

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Spence
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 3:24 PM
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18Gb with the cache all the way, I would recommend Seagate for this.  The
cost difference is small between the 9Gb and 18Gb plus 18Gb will be
replaceable for longer time than 9Gb.

I would recommend more than 4 disks though.  Specially if your implementing
raid of some sort.
If at all possible.


"Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if
both are frozen."

Christopher R. Spence
Oracle DBA
Fuelspot



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Hi all,
        Just thought I would throw this one out there and see what all of
you hot
shots think.  I am going to rebuild a server into a DB Server.  Currently it
has IDE drives in there and obviously I am not going to be using those.  So
I need to invest in some new SCSI drives.  Here's what I had in mind:

Either 4 X 9.2 Gig 10K RPM with 2mb Cache
OR     4 X 18.4 GIG 10K with 4MB cache

I was initially leaning towards the 9 gigs to save on cost, however someone
pointed out that 18 would be a better idea for growth down the line.  Also I
want to keep them all of the same size in case one goes down then I may have
room on another.
        What are your thoughts on this?  Does anyone know what "ultra fibre
scsi"
means?  Does anyone recommend brands to stear clear of?  I know that Seagate
is a pretty good name, but I can't find any in Ultra 2?  Anyone know if
Hitachi is a good name?
        Thanks in advance.

Sincerely,
Kevin Kostyszyn
DBA
Dulcian, Inc
www.dulcian.com 
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