[KLUG Members] Moving a HDD

[Phillip Hofmeister]

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On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 at 08:36:46AM -0400, Michael Lueck wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 08:15:59 -0400, Phillip Hofmeister wrote:
> >It is also important you don't over spend on your IT.
> 
> Last I knew it still takes three HDD's to do RAID 5, and the manufactures keep
> making the drives bigger and bigger.
> 
> Ex: The "smallest" IDE drive I can get in Qty 100 for desktops is 160GB! (And I
> mean normal sources, not run ends, etc...)
> 
> Hard not to "over buy" when your hand is being forced.

18 GB....

http://www.mwave.com/mwave/viewspec.hmx?scriteria=AA19140

Of course...if you want to stick IDE Drives into your "server" that is
up to you.  It depends on your reliability and speed needs.

If I had a server that was going to be pretty decently used and need to
reliable I would go find a nice hardware RAID card and drop a few Seagate
SCSI Cheetahs in to it.  Last I knew Seagate was the only manufacturer to
make a 15k RPM drive.  Then again...I haven't shopped around for SCSI
hard drives in the past 9 months.

With 3 Cheetahs (described above) you would have a 36 GB RAID 5 Array. 

Just me .02...

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Phillip Hofmeister
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