[Discuss] raid issues

[adler at stephenadler.com (Stephen Adler)]

Thanks Derek, awesome case....

But I thought maybe I'm barking up the wrong tree by trying to get a
rack mountable system which has both CPU and storage. Should I be
looking at perhaps getting a 1U rack and then a separate direct attached
storage system? That could be the 2,3,4U chassis. The only thing is I'm
not too familiar with them and I'm worried about the reliability of such
a configuration.

On Mon, 2014-06-23 at 09:52 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Maybe build a server around the norco RPC-4224 case?
> 
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811219038
> 
> -derek
> 
> On Mon, June 23, 2014 9:41 am, Stephen Adler wrote:
> > You guys have given me some great feed back. Thanks!
> >
> > Another question. As I try and configure this server which I'm getting
> > for work, the key issue is its ability to have a lot of hot swappable
> > disks. what I'm seeing these days is a migration to the 2.5" drives away
> > from the 3.5". The problem is the 2.5" drives only go up to 1 terabyte,
> > while the 3.5" drives go up to 6 terabytes. so what's up with this 2.5"
> > drive bit. The literature says that they consume less power (the 2.5"
> > drives) and are the favorite for data centers. But there's a factor of 3
> > difference between the storage capacity and size. so the problem is that
> > I have very few options when it comes to buying a rack mounted server
> > with 3.5" hot swap-able drives. there seems to be a lot more rack
> > servers with 2.5" drive bays.
> >
> > Can anyone recommend a system with 16 3.5" drive bays?
> >
> > On Sun, 2014-06-22 at 14:14 +0000, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) wrote:
> >> > From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey.com at blu.org [mailto:discuss-
> >> > bounces+blu=nedharvey.com at blu.org] On Behalf Of Bill Bogstad
> >> >
> >> > Actual media that you can take physically offline may still have
> >> merit.
> >>
> >> I've heard tons of horror stories where some company's data, including
> >> all backups, were destroyed instantly.  Not just redundancy, but backups
> >> too.
> >>
> >> I know of ONE company, where the only reason the company survived was
> >> because the CEO had a copy of the core IP on his iPod.
> >>
> >> Offsite and Offline.  No substitute.
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