Re: Re: 1TB Raid?

["Stuart Poulton" <stuart.poulton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I know everyone has differing opinions on this subject.

But I've got servers with both IDE raid and FC raid, and have seen no
difference in failure rates between the two.

There are a growing number of SATA based solutions appearing from the major
vendors where low cost, relativly low performance storage is needed.

At the end of the day you pay your money depending on your requirements.

Regards

Stuart


----- Original Message -----
From: "ianh1000" <ianh1000@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 9:35 PM
Subject: [ukha_d] Re: 1TB Raid?


Hi All.

Does Anyone here have an opinion/expierience with SATA?
From the comercial space where I work they look cheap but are not
designed to run 24x7, the MTBF (Mean Time Between Failure) in
comparison with SCSI is very poor. I would be happy to use them in a
PC but not sure about a file server. I would prefer a solution that
used a hot spare disk myself. I guess it depends if you could reload
all the data if you had to. My configurations can use 500+ spindles
so the chances of one failing are high. This is work not HA at home
by the way. Perhaps I am justy paranoid?

Ian