Re: question about storage

[David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com>]

On 02/18/2011 10:52 PM, Jim Green wrote:
> I think I'll probably do this,
> 4x2T drive in desktop and use a external closure for backup(because I
> am using mirroring, disk failure should be ok though). and I'll be
> using soft raid to avoid hardware raid card.

Have you thought about security?  If your database contains 
confidential, personal, etc., information, it's easy to encrypt your 
partitions with dm-crypt:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dm-crypt


A processor with AES-NI extensions is desirable:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AES-NI


Beware that Intel's newest desktop chipsets (H67 and P67) have problems 
with the SATA ports:

    http://blogs.intel.com/technology/2011/01/chipset_design_flaw.php


http://newsroom.intel.com/community/intel_newsroom/blog/2011/01/31/intel-identifies-chipset-design-error-implementing-solution

    "The company expects to begin delivering the updated version of the 
chipset to customers in late February and expects full volume recovery 
in April"


If you can wait, I would.  If not, then the choices would seem to be 
prior-generation desktop chipsets or current workstation/ server chipsets:


http://www.intel.com/products/desktop/chipsets/index.htm?iid=desk_nav+chip


http://www.intel.com/products/server/chipsets/index.htm#s1=Workstation&s2=all&s3=all?iid=chipsets_body+workstation


> Thank you both!

You're welcome.  :-)


David