specs for running 35 machines

[Gavin McCullagh]

Hi,

On Wed, 15 Aug 2007, Jim Kronebusch wrote:

> As far as hard drives go I would use SCSI.  

Agreed.

> RAID 5 is your most fault tolerant solution, but lacks a little in speed.

RAID 5 is not the most fault tolerant -- although it is better than RAID0
or no RAID at all.
	http://www.miracleas.com/BAARF/RAID5_versus_RAID10.txt

> If you can afford it go with a RAID 1+0 (mirror of stripes) which will
> give you excellent speed and reliability.  If neither of these is an
> option at least run SATA with a mirror.  I personally would team two GB
> NICs together in the server using this tutorial:

It's all about budget but you have to think:

  "When one of my disks dies (which is inevitable), what systems will go
   down, how many people will be affected and how long will it take me to
   get them back up?  Also, how frequent will these disk failures be -- the
   more disks, the more frequent disk failures are"

You should also have back-ups, but you should use RAID for reliability and
if possible to gain performance, depending on your need and budget.

Gavin