raid controller recommendation

[mike webster]

I'm in the shared / dedicated / collocation / free hosting business.  A
16 drive array is quite handy for creating a SAN.  Right now I have
(many) servers running 72GB SCSI drives in a RAID5, 3+1 configuration
and I must say its quite expensive.  Imagine the cost savings by
populating a 16 drive SAN with 300GB IDE drives.  Terabytes of storage,
much cheaper that SCSI...

Okay, that was my $.02 worth.   Please continue...

Mike.


On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 20:29, Robert L Cochran wrote:
> Jesse, what advantage does having a 16 drive RAID array give you? I'm in 
> no way a RAID expert and don't understand the business need for a 16 
> drive array.
> 
> Thanks!