4 Oct
2004
4 Oct
'04
5:21 a.m.
Doc wrote...
I'm going to suggest a bigger case, to start
with.
That's possible, we'll see when I look at the case.
is reasonable, and we *very* rarely see the frequency
of drive failures
that you're getting. When we do, it's invariably thermal issues in 1U
rack cases. A lot of the 1U cases just don't provide adequate cooling
for high-activity, high-RPM drives.
This case has some serious airflow due to the
many fans plus the large
blower motor. I don't think that the classiccmp server hard drive has failed
but twice in about 5 or so years. Not great, but not a really bad failure
rate methinks.
Do I remember you run FreeBSD? Set up a nice SATA
pair or triplet
and run software RAID.
Never ever ever ever run any raid level in software.
It's always a bad idea.
If you want IDE or SATA hardware RAID, go 3ware.
They rock.
I'll have a looksee.
Jay
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