RE: Suggestions on SCSI

From: Kevin Kostyszyn <kevin_at_dulcian.com>
Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 12:05:57 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.003167B9.20010531120156@fatcity.com>

I was thinking the 18's where a better idea now that everyone agrees. However, I can't go with more than 4 drives unfortunately, this is on a Dell Precision 410. I could try and add an additional scsi adapter, but I am not sure that I would have a place for the drive, unless I went external.

Also, this is purely a development box, it's not like I need ultimate performance, it's just a bunch of developers that will be complaining and I can just blaim their code. I will not be implementing any sort of raid either. Thanks again for the advice!!
Kev

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Spence
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 3:24 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

18Gb with the cache all the way, I would recommend Seagate for this. The cost difference is small between the 9Gb and 18Gb plus 18Gb will be replaceable for longer time than 9Gb.

I would recommend more than 4 disks though. Specially if your implementing raid of some sort.
If at all possible.

"Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen."

Christopher R. Spence
Oracle DBA
Fuelspot

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Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 1:16 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Hi all,

Just thought I would throw this one out there and see what all of you hot
shots think. I am going to rebuild a server into a DB Server. Currently it has IDE drives in there and obviously I am not going to be using those. So I need to invest in some new SCSI drives. Here's what I had in mind:

Either 4 X 9.2 Gig 10K RPM with 2mb Cache OR 4 X 18.4 GIG 10K with 4MB cache

I was initially leaning towards the 9 gigs to save on cost, however someone pointed out that 18 would be a better idea for growth down the line. Also I want to keep them all of the same size in case one goes down then I may have room on another.

What are your thoughts on this? Does anyone know what "ultra fibre scsi"
means? Does anyone recommend brands to stear clear of? I know that Seagate is a pretty good name, but I can't find any in Ultra 2? Anyone know if Hitachi is a good name?

Thanks in advance.

Sincerely,
Kevin Kostyszyn
DBA
Dulcian, Inc
www.dulcian.com
kevin_at_dulcian.com

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