OT: os/hardware recommendations (was Re: filepro RAM limit)

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 03:19:01AM -0400, Brian K. White wrote:
> I suppose I should clarify that this recommendation is only in the assumed 
> context that the old box was only a single scsi drive on a 80 or 160 mhz 
> cable. Any userbase/workload that currently functions at all, however 
> slowly, on that, is automatically small enough that 4 sata's (even plain 
> sata-1 150mbit ones) and software raid5 on linux will be fine, will in fact 
> be not just fine but ridiculously faster. If you have 50 or more users and 
> the application is very active then a hardware raid card and more disks are 
> in order. Can still be sata though, though sata-II (300mbit with command 
> queueing) would be a good idea.

Note that recovering Linux systems with the boot and root volumes on
software raid can be problematic.

Cheers,
-- jra
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