Re: [cobalt-users] Re: Clustered Cobalts

["Mike Fritsch" <mfritsch@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Whens the RaQ4 set to hit show rooms? Maybe it wont be so buggy.

----- Original Message -----
From: Jay Tingley <jayt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2000 12:16 PM
Subject: [cobalt-users] Re: Clustered Cobalts


> [ Kris Dahl writes... ]
>
> > I haven't done any clustering with Cobalt Machines.  Honestly I think
that
> > its not really that cost effective... In most of the applications that
> > require that sort of availability, I would rather go with machines that
have
> > RAID, etc.
>
> RAID only protects you against hard drive failure, and while it's
> certainly a great feature to have by providing a redundant data
> backup, it doesn't provide any redundancy for server failure.
>
> With Cobalt's StaQware you can cluster two low-end RaQ3i's for
> under $5000USD, which is fairly reasonable. When the RaQ4s come
> out with the built-in level 1 RAID, you could run two of these
> in tandem to provide load balancing and mirroring.
> --
>
> Jay Tingley
> BlackSun | info@xxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
>
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