Posts Tagged ‘raid

Anyone good you would recommend? May be months. I have an extremely limited budget until I actually get people on. Trying full Onapp config with 9TB RAID10, E5620, etc for under $2500! Luckily I got a barebones Proliant DL320s with 12 bays for free. Started setting up iSCSI on it last night. I’m going to [...]

I am trying to install 4 SaS hard disks in Raid 10 using Centos, any good hardware raid where I do not need the troubles of recompiling the raid drivers upon every upgrade? Do recommend KDAWebServices replied: Adaptec Unified Serial FastServ replied: Adaptec 2405 or 5405. 5405 is similar to 2405 except it has a [...]

I found there is new hdd 1TB 7200RPM 64MB SATA (BLACK) 6GB/S This is better of WD 1TB RE3 GP ENTERPRISE 32MB SATA better? MikeTrike replied: If you are running just one drive without RAID, the WD Black will be fine. However if you intend to run any sort of RAID you would want the [...]

I’ve been thinking today about attempting to host my websites myself. I’m not sure I want to go that route, but I’m just thinking about costs and time commitments at this point to see if it’s even feasible. How much would I need invest into hardware to start out? How much would it all cost [...]

I currently have 4 Dedicated servers, that I want to migrate to the following dedicated server. Supermicro Intel® Xeon® Processor X5650 (12M Cache, 2.66 GHz, 6.40 GT/s Intel® QPI) 49152 MB (48 GB DDR3 RAM) 8x2TB HDD Hardware Raid Card Gbit Port Which Virtualization technology would you recommend? I need to be able to run [...]

Dear People, I am planning to setup the hosting server, but i am bit worry of it. My question is should i use hardware raid or software raid? From my understding hardware raid have better performance, etc but the disadvantages is if the raid controller break down you cant find the replacement, you will be [...]

I am building a new system with an adaptec 2405 raid controller. I’m using the Adaptec 2236600-R sas->sata raid cable. The cable is labeled 0,1,2,3. I have 0 plugged into the left most drive, 1 into the next, 2 into the next, and 3 into the right hand drive (as you would expect for a [...]

As I was building my business plan I began thinking of hardware failure. I know I may be lacking in information so let me know what else information will be needed, but which version of RAID would be best for shared hosting servers and also dedicated servers and why. Thank you in advance. For more [...]

Hello, I would like to know how much this server could handle. wether or not to go for raid10-raid5. We mainly advertise to the gaming ind. Intel X2 Xeon L5630, 8 Core, HT, 24 GB DDRIII, ECC Reg. RAM, 4x 1000 GB (SATAII) HDD The Connection is 100MB’S Full Duplex Port. All raid controller’s are [...]

More than once I’ve read that a vendor of VPS should have his server equipped with Raid-10 and four(4)HDD and vendors of VPS who run with a single disk config. are just ‘cowboys’. I don’t really understand why four HDD except maybe to avoid an ‘access-to-disk’ bottleneck & slowdown. What is the ‘science’ behind raid-10 [...]