[ale] Production Servers

[Jeff Hubbs]

I generally share this sentiment.  IDE isn't really what you want to use
if you care about how fast the server can go.

However, if the money is just too tight, I would avoid the mobo IDE RAID
and use IDE drives and kernel RAID.  My logic there is that the IDE RAID
drivers, even if open-source, aren't going to have anywhere near as many
eyeballs looking at them as is kernel RAID, and it is also my
understanding that the IDE RAID business is doing its RAID tricks in
software anyway, just as the kernel would.

Another alternative, though, would be to use the purpose-built IDE RAID
subsystems like what can be seen at www.raidzone.com.  They actually
stick IDE drives on an external PCI bus.

- Jeff

On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 05:53, J.M. Taylor wrote:
> Go with SCSI if you can.  It's not about speed, it's about design
> specifications...SCSI is meant to be run in heavy disk I/O production
> environments, IDE drives are rated consumer/desktop last I knew.
> 
> My checkbook would love to stand corrected on that...
> 
> jenn
> 
> 
> Mike Lockhart said:
> > Does anyone have any recommendations on the usage of IDE raid in Linux?
> > I've been estimating costs for a production DB server, and I'm going to
> > go with Penguin Computing for the box, but I'm having a hard time
> > deciding if I should take the price hit for SCSI drive and raid
> > controllers, or if I should go the 10,000 rpm IDE route and IDE raid
> > controllers.
> >
> > -- mike
> >
> >
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