Re: [cobalt-users] I am getting ready to purchase a RAQ3i (Reliable)??

["Nat Chicoria" <nat.c@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Are the internal drives just regular IDE drives?  Can I just go out and buy
one at my local computer store, or are they something proprietary?

Nat
----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Pumphrey" <dpumphre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2000 10:54 AM
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] I am getting ready to purchase a RAQ3i
(Reliable)??


> I believe them to be extremly reliable.  Most of the problems I read here
can be quickly and easily solved outsite of the Web Based GUI, but it
appears that many may not understand how to fix things outside of the web
based GUI.  I think that for site administrators its a perfect solution, but
you still must have a clue as to the internal workings to be a successful
machine administrator.
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> It sounds like many have bought the boxes beacuase of the GUI and do not
have the experience to work outside of it.
>
> Also most of the hardware failures tend to be hard drives.  Welcome to the
real world.  Drives are known to fail and its a part of being a machine
administrator.  This is not just with Cobalts - I have drives fail all the
time throughout our data center on all types of hardware, especially IDE
drives.  I would suggest using a hot swappable raid solution, with a quick
disaster recovery back up if you can not live with drive failure.
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