Terry,
You would be far better off with 4 - 9-gig drives instead of 2 - 18-gig
drives. Much better performance. Along the same lines - buy 10,000 rpm
SCSI drives if you can.
Raid 1 is fine - but make sure you buy a true RAID controller - do not use a
NT software mirror ( a hardware RAID controller will be much faster and
more reliable than a software mirror ).
When you get the box - turn off the RAID controller's write cache. Only use
the read cache. If you leave the write cache on and the box crashes then
what ever was in memory on the RAID card will be lost.
Good luck,
Todd Anderson
-----Original Message-----
From: Terry Williams [mailto:tlw@...]
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2001 1:25 PM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [Vantage] Server specs for 5.0
Randy:
See my earlier post with that information. As far as RAID goes, never used
any up till now. Never had the equipment to do that. I take great care to
police my backups. This is the first "real" server I've bought since I've
been here. When I was instructed to configure a new box for one of the
engineers, Dell had a great deal and I was able to get a new server and only
pay ? price for the engineer's computer.
Anyhow, I'm planning on going with level 1 RAID, hence the 2 18gb's. On
that thought, any one care to share from experience?
Terry L. Williams I.S. Manager Chipsco, Inc. 9936 Liberty St. Ext.
Meadville, PA 16335 p.8143336331 x236 f.8143372548 tlw@...
<mailto:tlw@...> www.chipsco.com < http://www.chipsco.com/
<http://www.chipsco.com/> >
-----Original Message-----
From: Randy Vander Galien [mailto:randyv@...]
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2001 1:17 PM
To: 'vantage@yahoogroups.com'
Subject: RE: [Vantage] Server specs for 5.0
"I do have a new Dell PowerEdge sitting in a box chomping at the bit to get
out. That's gonna be the 5.0 server sometime within the next couple weeks."
Terry, care to share your new server configuration? Model, Raid Level,
memory, and anything else pertinent.
Randy Vander Galien
IS Manger
Heartland EPS
-----Original Message-----
From: Terry Williams [mailto:tlw@...]
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2001 11:22 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [Vantage] Server specs for 5.0
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