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- From: cecchi@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (Del Cecchi)
- Subject: Re: Server Fault Tolerant H/W Sources Sought
- Message-ID: <1993Jan05.142247.27619@rchland.ibm.com>
- Sender: cecchi@signa.rchland.ibm.com (Del Cecchi)
- Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 14:22:47 GMT
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- References: <199301042217.AA07305@tuna.wang.com>
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- In article <199301042217.AA07305@tuna.wang.com>, MICHAEL.WILLETT@OFFICE.WANG.COM ("Michael Willett") writes:
- |> On the comp.sys.novell news group, Thomas P. Morris at the
- |> UNC School of Public Health, CAIS (tmorris@sph.unc.edu)
- |> (tom@sphvax.sph.unc.edu)
- |> (tom@uncsphvx.bitnet)
- |> writes:
- |>
- |>
- |> >In terms of storage needs, I would expect to need to upgrade to
- |> >c1.5 GB storage in the next year (not including mirror or duplex
- |> >drives), with up to 3GB needed in the longer term...Options we are
- |> >looking at...:
- |>
- |> >-some form of RAID hardware....
- |>
- |> >So, What am I looking for? - Hardware recommendations
- |> - Vendor recommendations
- |> - Prices
- |> - End-user (system manager) experience with
- |> such systems
- |>
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- 1.5 GB is only one drive, worth about 2500 or 3000 bucks. Do you really need
- the fault tolerance? MTBF of modern drives is in the hundreds of thousand hours
- range. RAID seems like swatting flies with a sledge hammer for this app.
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