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fif@teleweb.at (Christian Fiala) writes:
>the 4Gig HDD get's to small and i'll habe to change it.
>there are 2 4gig fujitsu 7200rpm (older models) mirrored.
>on this server there are approximately 15 user working, splitted to two 
>10mbit lans. traffic isn't that much and 10mbit are enough at that time.
>there are also 2 scsi-cdroms in it and one hp-dds3 streamer, both 
>(including the hdd) on a symbios 815 controller.
>i'm thinking on changing the 2* 4gig hdds to 2*13gig ide (ibm djna), also 
>mirrored.
>does someone of you have experience with ide in servers?
>it think the speed isn't that problem? (is it???)

Probably not for your environment.  As a general rule, I stay away from
IDE drives in servers.  But for 15 users..... speed shouldn't be an
issue.  That is, unless they are transferring HUGH amounts of data back
and forth.  It may be worth while to check into the price of SCSI drives,
however.


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