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Article #326Re: SCSI/IDE and RAID [Was: 120 gb is the Largest hard drive I can put in my 4550?]
From: derek / nul
Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2003 10:36
Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2003 10:36
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On Sat, 06 Dec 2003 05:00:30 GMT, Leythos <void@nowhere.com> wrote: >In article <EcbAb.363$vg4.314@nwrdny02.gnilink.net>, >DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net says... >> As for use of mirroring software, never. Too much overhead *always* >> use hardware based RAID solutions. > >You have no experience to back that statement, it shows. > >I have 7 servers with dual 100gb drives in them, all are IDE, all run at >least a dozen web sites (asp.net ones) and several FTP sites. The drives >are mirrored using Windows 2000 software mirror. All drives are setup >with 6GB for the first partition, and the remainder for the second >partition. > >The servers take about 30,000 hits per day and never show any bottle >neck at the drive layer (using perfmon) I would not expect any bottlenecks at 1 hit every 3 seconds, any IDE could handle that. SCSI comes in handy at 30 hits per second
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