Re: Rackmount Sun Hardware

From: BN (BN_at_BN.COMO)
Date: 08/30/05 

Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 15:28:21 -0400

Rich Teer wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, BN wrote:
>
>
>>I am looking for a PC with a rack mount chassis that can handle 4 IDE or
>>SATA drives internally with a CDROM and floppy. It should have or
>>accommodate SATARAID or IDERAID (mainly for mirroring) (not software
>>raid) and gigabit Ethernet. I intend to run SAMBA and postfix. Anything
>
>
> Why not SW RAID? Unless you're talking about RAID 5, SW RAID isn't
> that bad...
>

Software raid is too unreliable. You have to use a flooopy to boot up if
 the SECONDARY (non-boot)drive in a IDE or SCSI chain (mirrored setup)
goes bad.

I rather let the controller handle everything including finding the good
drive in a mirror to boot from .

>
>>cheap would be ideal.
>
>
> SAMBA?!
>
> Right now, the only Sun box that meets your needs is the V40z, but it's
> not cheap. A V20z + external drive array would probably be cheaper.
>

What do you suggest for an external drive array?

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