classiccmp server hard drive info

At 19:37 03/10/2004, Jay West wrote: Is this going to be the only drive in the machine? I've had a few drives go down in my servers in the past (mostly cheap maxtors) and have got into the habit of moving the more critical machines to hardware RAID 1 - two IDE drives and a SiL 0680 based ATA card costs me less than a single SCSI drive would do, and while not perhaps the best quality solution, provides a little more re-assurance that should something go pop somewhere, then I've not lost anything and I have time to source and install a replacement without worrying about the system being down meantime. Performance is slightly better, too! (The only problem, as with any RAID, is when you have to swap a drive and need to get a new one to match - I have found even the same model of drive different capacities!) Rob.