[plug] [OT] opinions: SCSI hard disks

[Jon Miller]

If you look on the IBM web site and look up Linux and benchmarking you
will see their benchmark test using rhl7.3 and their server with all the
details of what they did.  As for drives since I use IBM SCSI drives all
the time, I've yet run into any problems that I keep hearing about on
any of the servers that I've built.  I would recommend that you look at
the 36 or 73GB HDD.  As for the onboard controller, use it only for the
backup (all onboard SCSI controllers are usually (90%) of the time a
strip-down version of the rreal deal.  I tend to buy an separate card
from either IBM or Adaptec for the drives.

Jon

On Thu, 2003-04-24 at 11:03, Ben Jensz wrote:
> I'm looking at getting a new file server (Linux/Samba) here at work as 
> our current one has pretty much reached capacity and can be pretty damn 
> slow at times.
> 
> I think I've made my mind up on the base server (an IBM xSeries 235), 
> but there is absolutely no chance that I'm going to put IBM hard disks 
> into it.  I'm looking at other brands and am wondering what others have 
> had good experiences with recently in terms of SCSI hard disks?  The 
> machine has onboard Ultra 320 SCSI (68pin) and I'm going to have it 
> setup in the form of one system drive and 4 in hardware RAID 5 (with the 
> ServeRAID 5i adaptor).  Looking at a drive capacity of 36Gb for all of 
> the drives.
> 
> TIA :)
> 
> 
> / Ben
> 
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Jon Miller <jlmiller at mmtnetworks.com.au>
MMT Networks Pty Ltd