[ale] Production Servers

Jonathan Rickman jonathan at xcorps.net
Mon Feb 3 09:26:33 EST 2003


On 3 Feb 2003, Mike Lockhart wrote:

> 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.

Buy cheap, buy twice.

Go with SCSI for anything mission critical.

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Jonathan Rickman
X Corps Security
http://www.xcorps.net

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