Re: OT: USB/Firewire external hard drives for 10g RAC testing - any recommendations?

We do a lot of our non-software-development RAC work with Firewire drives and the LaCie are the best, both in terms of performance and stability.

The only real requirements are that the sbp2 chipset on the firewire drive supports multiple login, which most these days do. USB will not work, by the way, only Firewire (though the combo firewire/USB drives should work no problems). The preferred drive we use is the LaCie porsche:

http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=10384

in varying sizes. The big benefits are the small form factor, while still being a normal hard drive, and the stackability. It's also quiet enough for our developers to share their desks with them without complaining.

The last note is that if you're using redhat es/as 3, I'd recommend upgrading to the latest version of the kernel, as we saw a number of high I/O stability problems when dealing with multiple firewire drives in our testing environment. Upgrading to (looks at a node) 2.4.21-20 (the unsupported tree) fixed that entirely for us.

Thanks,
Matt

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On Dec 3, 2004, at 3:33 PM, Paul Drake wrote:



> Need some space in a hurry, and I'd like to be able to play with RAC

> over USB/Firewire.

> This article  

> http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/ 

> hunter_rac.html#Hardware%20&%20Costs

> recommends a Maxtor Onetouch unit.

>

> Anyone care to share their experiences?

>

> thanks,

>

> Paul

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