[Gllug] Server supplier for Linux mail server

[Rich Walker]

James Roberts <jr at stabilys.com> writes:

>
> Over the last n years, all companies have produced heaps of unreliable
> junk. SASI/SCSI IDE/ATA/SATA - all junk. It's just a question of which
> flavour to avoid this week - and there's no way to find out, 1000000hr
> projected mtbf or not.

Start with RAID-1 and make sure your mirrors are made up of drives from
different manufacturers?

(mind you - I have a lot of Maxtors, and they only die when not cooled
properly. Keep them below c.a. 40, and you should be fine...)

cheers, Rich

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