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From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>
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Subject: Re: SCSI drive recommendation in 1U box ...
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On Thu, 29 Apr 2004, Simon wrote:

>
> Hot? no they don't, the very old ones do, but not the 5-7 generation.
> Also make sure your 1U chassis are properly designed to have enough
> airflow as mentioned in previous reply by Erich. Finally, all drives fail
> with given enough time and abuse, so if you need uptime, use RAID.
> You can fit 2-4 drives in a single 1U chassis, so you can run RAID 1,
> 5, 1+0, 0+1, etc... By the way, Hitachi just came out with 300GB SCSI
> drives; 4 such drives in RAID 5 will give you ~900GB, nuts.

Any recommendations on chassis for the Tyan Thunder 7xPro?

As for RAID, RAID5 is automatic on all our servers ...


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