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

[Bill Campbell]

On Sun, May 13, 2007, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
>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.

The same could be said for recovering any systems with software RAID on
anything required for booting, which is why I've always avoided it.

Bill
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