Kirk Bocek wrote:
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> Bryan J. Smith <b.j.smith@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> Do you understand what NCQ does?
>> It allows an intelligent drive to queue for the bus,
>> because the bus is dumb.
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>> So what do you think an intelligent strorage controller does?
>> (light bulb!)
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> Yes, I understand. I also don't have an unlimited budget. If I can get
> most of the benefit without needing a $300-800 add-on, that's a big plus.
A 3ware 8000 should be < 300$
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>> Put in an out-of-band GbE card or iSCSI HBA instead. Trust me on
>> this, you do _not_ want USB or FireWire.
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> I conceptually understand iSCSI, but how would I use a GbE NIC in a
> backup solution? Don't forget that a backup solution would depend on
> hot-pluggability. That's why I was thinking of USB/IEEE-1394.
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I don't really know, but you could get a pretty cheap NAS with a gigabit
nic to do your backups instead of using USB/Firewire.
>> I like the HP DL385 (2-way) and DL585 (4-way) servers.
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> Cool, I will take a look at HP's offerings. Do you have any motherboards
> alone that you would recommend?
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> Kirk Bocek
