Mark Ferlatte wrote:
SCA connected disks run through a backplane which should prevent this happening. I would have also suggested SCSI but it seemed price was an issue and this would have certainly been expensive when coupled with a RAID cardNate Duehr said on Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 09:13:48AM -0700:Agreed on the "as fast a CPU as you can afford" and the 10K RPM disk comments. However I'm not a huge fan of SATA yet. There's been quite a bit of discussion on various mailing lists of people having trouble with them. I'm old-school and would prefer the more expensive SCSI SCA-connector'ed disks in most of the servers I have spec'ed.Which lists? I've had a hell of a time with SCSI SCA connected disks; a singlebad SCSI disk can wipe out the whole chain, whereas with SATA that seems to be less likely. I'd be interested in hearing about SATA ickyness, though; from what I've seen, it seems like a good thing.
I tend to lean toward motherboards with a real serial port on them also, as you can configure a serial console to come up on one of them and use that from a laptop or what-have-you when you go to do maintenance instead of lugging a monitor/keyboard over to it. But they're getting harder to find.Not if you get a real server board; the newer Intel based ones have BIOS accessvia the serial console. :)
Actually they also have BIOS access via LAN. :-) Dave