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RE: [cobalt-users] Qube3 max disk size - loading RAQ4r ISO - RAM size as backup box?



> >
>> I used diamondmax 120GB drives, but basicaly any 3.5" ide type will do.
>>
>> Bob.
>
>Bob,
>That is really misleading info - quite a few makes / models of drives will
>NOT do as they are not server rated drives, they are more designed for
>desktop machines. Quite a few of the IBM drives specifically say in the
>product brochure they are not rated or designed for server useage.
>
>Phil


There are servers, and servers - a web  server, or a fileserver in a department gets constantly hammered - many hundreds of thousands of read/write operations in a day - this can and will result in a lot of movement in the heads - constant movement of the heads will mean much higher wear than a "deskltop" of "backup" type usage of a drive.

A raid backup device will get large chunks of data thrown onto it, and then nothing for many hours - possibly as much as a day.  That's the usage I intend for this qube - backup each of 4 raqs - I'm using this as a test-bed to see is I can use 1 qube per 4 raqs as a quick hit backup device.  I'd probably have setup a real cheap PC using RH9, but seeing as I have this qube sitting here already - I just need to put the right OS on it, and to setup the RAID...

regards

Greg
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