Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 13:36:27 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> To: Simon <simon@optinet.com> Cc: "freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: SCSI drive recommendation in 1U box ... Message-ID: <20040429133411.H60328@ganymede.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <20040429160720.25C7B9A7802@hub.org> References: <20040429160720.25C7B9A7802@hub.org>
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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 ... ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664
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