On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 10:23, Jack Malone wrote:
Hey thanks greg an brad for the replies. I had seen that article already greg, thanks for pointing it out again though.
Brad to answer your question on raid level, In my test bench machine where i have been doing my backup testing I'm running raid level 0, i store a lot of stuff on that machine for easy access to me on the network, an its my test bed also. On the server that is being used in production its at raid lever 1 for the redundancy, if one drive fails the server says running til i can replace the failed drive. I now have an older 6000 or 7000 3ware card in the production server, can not remember which one off the top of my head, using raid 1 with 3 drives, the 3rd as a stand drive. I will setup with raid 1 when i get the 3WA-9500S-8 or the 3WA-9500S-8MI card. The 9500s-8 is out of stock with the people we get parts from for another week an half so i might have to wait til then or get the 9500s-8MI. Not sure the difference is between the two or if I will be able to tell a difference in the performance of them.
again thanks for the info.
jack
You will not want to get the 9500s-8MI. It is a special connector that only works with a special hot-swap backplane. I ordered it and luckily the place I got it from new enough to make sure I had the backplane first. They saved me several days and some extra shipping costs. And the way it sounds a RAID-10 would be a good setup for you. Also another thing. I am using the 74GB 10k RPM 8MB cache Western Digital drives. But the new Maxtor 250GB 7200RPM 16MB cache drives seem to be a little faster. And with the slower RPM it would seem they might last a little longer. I just picked up 4 250's for $720. Have them in a RAID-10 software RAID. Seems pretty dang fast. Brad Dameron SeaTab Software www.seatab.com