[NTLUG:Discuss] Disk performance.

[Jim Wildman]

For 100's of gigs, I would definitely look at scsi and maybe even an
external hardware raid cabinet.  This is not going to be cheap...

Other issues to consider:
	1) How many drives do you need on each controller?
	2) How much power will you need?
	3) How much cooling/airflow do you need
	4) What about fsck/reboot time?


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On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Steve Baker wrote:

> I'm going to need lots of disk drives in any case (there are hundreds of
> Gigs of data in this machine) - so software RAID sounds like the answer.
>
> > Have fun, and keep us posted on the results.
>
> Yes - I'll do that - many thanks, this was just the kind of confirmation
> I was hoping for.
>
>