On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 10:09:26PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 03/18/08 10:18, Luke S Crawford wrote: > > Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> writes: > >> Or... don't buy sucky h/w in the first place. If you *really* care > >> about your data, you spend the extra bucks for quality h/w that has > >> a competent support staff behind it. And you pay for an adequate > >> backup solution! > > > > I think most people on this list are not looking to blow a Porsche (or more) > > on a netapp or EMC storage appliance. sure, they're great if you've > > We just bought 2 Linux clusters with (I think) EVA 5000 SANs. 40 > total TB of SCSI drives, I think. strange I thought eva 3000's and 5000's went eol a while ago > > Obviously, though, by "we", I don't mean the wife & I. :) > > > got the scratch, and if your data is really valuable, they might even make > > economic sense. But they don't make sense for your average debian user, > > who could buy several thousand backup workstations or servers for > > the price of one of the aforementioned 'good' raid boxes. > > > > What we are looking for here is a "good enough" raid solution... something > > For a given definition of "good enough". > > OP is at a Uni, and mentioned using 16-24 drives. Thus I get the > impression that he needs capacity, speed & reliability. An $800 > controller won't add that much on top of the cost of the drives, > shelves & power supplies. > > > that costs significantly less than completely duplicating the $800 server > > or workstation in question, (meaning most "good" raid solutions you > > speak of are right out.) and that gives a significantly better MBTF > > (and/or performance) than just one disk. > > > > Personally, I run on a mix of single disks and software mirrors... but if > > someone knows of a raid card that (along with a redundant disk) doesn't > > double the cost of my server and that significantly increases MBTF or > > performance over software mirroring, I'm all ears. > > - -- > Ron Johnson, Jr. > Jefferson LA USA > > Supporting World Peace Through Nuclear Pacification > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFH4IPmS9HxQb37XmcRAmVAAJwM0aDwdMvAs6Fk7x07QBJ3pko7JACg5Iij > EIB0Ss3MaULECvtrBwLv5SE= > =9nC1 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > > -- "It's about past seven in the evening here so we're actually in different time lines." - George W. Bush 01/01/2001 congratulating newly elected Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Washington, D.C.
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature