On Nov 16, 2007 3:23 PM, Ben Barrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Excellent data point, a great example given recent EUGLUG threads ;)
>
> As for SCSI-vs-SATA, it strikes me that the enterprise swing to
> commodity clustering,
> thanks even to the biggest irons, have brought enterprise-grade
> eng
Excellent data point, a great example given recent EUGLUG threads ;)
As for SCSI-vs-SATA, it strikes me that the enterprise swing to
commodity clustering,
thanks even to the biggest irons, have brought enterprise-grade
engineering across
to commodity formats. For example, many blades use 2.5" har
Quentin, spot on!
One point I failed to digress to is power -- beware, when taking your
first stabs at raid arrays, not to overload your system power supply.
When a normal PC powers up, all its drives spin up in sequence, and
the load is a sudden high power draw, which can blow out
commonly-availa
On Nov 16, 2007 2:07 PM, Ben Barrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Right on, thanks Quentin -- this better-defined "fakeraid" is much
> worse than soft-raid in many cases,
I'd amend this to say _all_ cases. Fakeraid
is a technological abomination, created by marketing departments and
unchecked ca
Right on, thanks Quentin -- this better-defined "fakeraid" is much
worse than soft-raid in many cases, I think, because drive recovery
after say mobo failure could be extremely difficult unless you have an
identical board (or close-enough chipset) available on reserve... with
soft-raid, provided yo
