On 11/6/06, Patton, Matthew F, CTR, OSD-PA&E <Matthew.Patton.ctr@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Classification: UNCLASSIFIED > Would you want an enclosure with SCSI drives or SATA drives? how much money you got? Unless you are running a fortune 1000 or better operation SATA should more than cut it.
Thanks, I was just concerned about database activity on the array, I'm sure everything else would be fine.
> the 7200 3Gb drives for maximum performance? define "maximum". With a RAID controller that doesn't stink and enough spindles the 300GB drives should be quite sufficient. depends on how much $ you have. You don't have to have an external storage chassis. You can convert that GNBD server to an iscsi head just with some software.
Well, by maximum I mean, with SCSI we always buy 15k drives vs 10k drives so it seems counter intuitive to buy 7200 RPM drives over 10k drives for better performance. I don't have much experience with SATA drives in this type of environment. The only reason I was looking at an enclosure was to have some built in redundancy vs having to use multipath again on two servers or just a single server and no redundancy. -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
