[K12OSN] Re: SATA vs. SCSI....buying a new server

[Calvin Dodge]

On 7/14/06, pogson <robert.pogson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  I don't do Windows if I can help it, but with Linux you save big time
> using RAM to cache files and SATA to serve them. I am planning to put three
> of these folks in my /home and http server in my system. I can use RAID 1 to
> permit serving three files at once, and RAID 1 over network ,drbd, to use
> two servers in  a HA cluster and the price of each drive is $CDN 163.  I do
> not need speed
>
>
FWIW, if you want anecdotal SATA reliability info, my employer's hosting
service (tummy.com) swears by Hitachi drives - Seagate is their second
choice.

Calvin
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