Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 20:41:31 +0200 From: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" <steveo@eircom.net> To: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@freebsd.org> Cc: mike@adept.org, jandrese@mitre.org, geniusj@bluenugget.net, mike@sentex.net, sucho2@quasar.phys.vt.edu, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Regarding hw.ata.wc="1"...... Message-ID: <20010724204131.355a3ae6.steveo@eircom.net> In-Reply-To: <20010724093512W.jkh@freebsd.org> References: <3B5D94E7.4680ACEF@mitre.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0107240845420.92951-100000@snafu.adept.org> <20010724093512W.jkh@freebsd.org>
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On Tue, 24 Jul 2001 09:35:12 -0700
Jordan Hubbard <jkh@freebsd.org> wrote:
JH> You want a server, use SCSI drives at the very minimum and some sort
JH> of RAID product on top of that if it's really genuinely a server. The
JH> hardware's cheap enough now that there's simply no excuse for not
JH> taking such steps. Enough said.
OT I know, but I have been seriously considering that since complete
systems are sufficiently cheap these days (especially when built without
RAID or SCSI) that it may make more sense to forgoe the SCSI and RAID in
favour of a complete spare system and use a software mirror (or load
duplication) to keep it available for a hot swap. One benefit of this approach
is that the hardware is on *much* shorter lead times this way because it's all
off the shelf and alternatives are feasible.
There's more than one way to skin a cat.
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