[Gllug] Linux Install and RAID (ABit KT7-RAID)

[Jim Bailey]

Hi,

low cost backup of our file and web servers is exactly what we are 
trying to build.  The idea is that we use cheap IDE Raid arrays 80gb 
5200rpm Seagates with an ATA 100 interface for under £150 with a weekly 
tape archive.  We will have the server running open BSD held off site by 
our siblings Lshift.    We may well be doing the same for them as time 
goes by and it proves its worth.  Comments and advise would be 
welcome :-)

Cheers Jim


On Wednesday, July 25, 2001, at 09:21 AM, john.hearns at framestore.co.uk 
wrote:

> Bruce Richardson wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 04:18:40PM +0000, Jim Bailey wrote:
>>> support but not open BSD (you figure it?) the info on IDE Raid seems
>>> pretty sketchy to me is this Geek SCSI snobbery?
>>
>> There's nothing snobbish about preferring SCSI over IDE - one's as 
>> smart
>> as the other is dumb.
>>
> Totally true Bruce.
>
> However, there is a cost difference between SCSI and IDE.
> There's recently been an article on Slashdot on a 1/2 terabyte
> file server, built from IDE disks.
> http://staff.sdsc.edu/its/terafile/
> Also I was shown another cheap 1/2 tbyte file server
> at CERN, which sat under a table. They were very proud of it.
>
> If what you require is a big, cheap storage area that might be the way
> to go.
> I was going to say that this was bound to be slower that SCSI,
> but the RAID controller they are using claims 85MB/sec
> http://www.3ware.com/products/Escalade6k.asp?Title=Product&subTitle=361&ImageNumber=
> 2
> Then again, never having even seen one of these things,
> the proof of the pudding is always in the eating.
>
> I'm sure the experts from Veritas etc. will disagree with me -
> I'm interested in responses.
>
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