Re: RAID & Hard disk performance
My experience with the new Maxtor drives is very positive. They perform
well and seem very reliable. Seagate drives however seem to be very
sensitive to knocks and bumps.
However, I must agree with you on the raid5 solution... for large raid
setups, the only practical solution is SCSI. As for cooling... those
>10000rpm drives sure do run hot, so cooling is of utmost importance.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Roger Abrahamsson" <roger@obbit.se>
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Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2001 7:59 PM
Subject: Re: RAID & Hard disk performance
>
> Well, my experience instead is that scsi is rock solid compared to ide
> as long as you choose drives with same rotational speed etc. If you get
> those high rpm drives you have to be very careful with cooling. I try
> always to get 7200rpm drives and also stay away from certain brands, and
> then I havent seen one failure this year. Biggest problem I see with ide
> is the way drives can behave so differently and that you need all your
> pci slots to run a decent raid5 system, if not going for one of the very
> rare 5+ channel hardware raid controllers. Which are just as expensive
> as scsi controllers and have really no good linux support that I have
> found. If you want anything above 6-7 disks in a raid system you really
> dont have any alternative than scsi, no matter if you want to run
> software or hardware raid.
>
> For workstations though I would go with IDE, not many people load their
> computers to the degree they would note the difference.
>
> So for drive failings, I would say that they much more correlate to
> certain drive models and/or manufacturers than ide/scsi. Personally I
> try and stay as far away as possible from Maxtor and Seagate, but thats
> me. (I used to work way back as a pc tech, and I dont think I have ever
> seen so many dead on arrival drives as from seagate, maxtors usually
> worked at first and then started dying one by one)
>
>
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