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

["Phil Beynon" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > >
> >> 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

Hi Greg,
Yep so if you are using it as that it's not a spec issue really, but for
someone searching the archives and seeing "just about anything would do" it
was very misleading!
That must be the first time in the last few years we've agreed on something
:-)

Regards,

Phil

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