On Jan 12, 2004, at 1:47 PM, Ricky Beam wrote:
On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Nick Reinking wrote:
It seems to me that one of the biggest problems
we seem to have is
reliable
and speedy hard drives. Perhaps it might be wise to consider possible
purchasing an external disk subsystem? Something like the Apple
Xserve
RAID systems are speedy (lots of internal hardware RAID), reliable
(easy
to swap out disks), and expandable (up to 3.5TB, 1TB in the cheapest
configuration). If the database server dies, it should be fairly easy
to plug the external disk system into another machine.
"Like" is the key word there. 6k$ for a [censored] Apple logo is
insane.
I've bought similar hardware for less than 1/10th that price. If all
you
need is a drive shelf, start searching eBay. (I can recommendations if
anyone cares.)
If you grab a fibre channel shelf (or more than one), I have plenty
of drives for the cause (14x18G and 10x9.1G drives gathering dust.)
I'd offer an entire Eurologic shelf, but you can find those local in
CA easier and faster than shipping across the country. (6 of mine came
from Canada :-))
--Ricky
Hey, I'm just saying that we could certainly use a reliable external
disk
subsystem. If you know of somebody who sells a reliable external disk
subsystem for a better price, than that's great. I'm guessing that
you're going
to have trouble building a rack mounted disk system, that supports fibre
channel, redundant power supplies, disk hot-swapping, and a built-in
RAID
subsystem, with 1TB of disk space for less than $600, then let me know.
I'd like
to buy a few for myself.
--
Nick Reinking -- eschewing obfuscation since 1981 -- Minneapolis, MN