[ale] raid suggestions

[Jeff Hubbs]

TOUCHDOWN!  End of thread. :)

On 2/13/12 9:46 AM, Geoffrey Myers wrote:
> Jeff Hubbs wrote:
>> So tell us about the Linux box, which I assume has been and will
>> continue to be a fileserver.  Number/size of drives; disk controller
>> complement.
> Not to be.  It's being replaced with the new (windows) hardware.
>
>> On 2/10/12 2:55 PM, Geoffrey Myers wrote:
>>> Jeff Hubbs wrote:
>>>> So we've all gone down all these different roads and we still don't have
>>>> the hardware/usage story from the OP?
>>> Well, now it's changed substantially. :(  Initially, was planning on
>>> replacing existing file server with better hardware.  Now they tell me
>>> they are purchasing an application, which of course, only runs on
>>> windows, thus they need the new server to run windows.  Just the same,
>>> the client has about 15 desktop machines that connect to an (existing)
>>> Linux box for sharing documents.
>>>
>>>> On 2/10/12 1:01 PM, Pat Regan wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:44:38 -0500
>>>>> Jim Lynch<ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com>    wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Has the concern about the possibility of the hardware controller
>>>>>> breaking and being out of production been eliminated?
>>>>> Whether the card is out of production or not may not matter much in the
>>>>> middle of the day when the controller decides to fail.  You'll still
>>>>> either have to own a spare or you'll have to be able to actually
>>>>> purchase one nearby.  Depending on your scale, buying that spare may be
>>>>> a sizable amount of your server budget.
>>>>>
>>>>> Almost all the arguments I've seen in favor of using hardware instead of
>>>>> software RAID are either completely untrue or were a true for a short
>>>>> window around 10 years ago.
>>>>>
>>>>>> That of course can be alleviated by proper backups.  I always thought
>>>>>> that was somewhat meaningless in a lot of cases 'cause I'd think many
>>>>>> raid installations were to support a backup set of drives.  Not all,
>>>>>> of course, but surely that's a common purpose for a raid set.
>>>>> RAID is not a replacement for backups.  Your RAID only helps protect
>>>>> you from disk failures and reduce the risk of downtime.  It won't
>>>>> protect you from many kinds of data corruption or from user error.
>>>>>
>>>>> Pat
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