RE: Urgent advice on RAID design requested

I disagree with you.  Look at http://www.bestbuybusiness.com/bbfb/en/US/adirect/bestbuy?cmd=catProductDetail&productID=BB10725830&operation=showDetails  This is RAID, so the mean time between failure will be extremely large.  This is extremely reliable.

David Sigfredo Angulo
Faculty
DePaul University
School of Computer Science, Telecommunications, and Information Systems
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312-362-5041


> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On
> Behalf Of Tim Cutts
> Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 3:40 AM
> To: HPC in Bioinformatics
> Subject: Re: [Bioclusters] Urgent advice on RAID design requested
> 
> 
> On 17 Jan 2007, at 12:22 am, Angulo, David wrote:
> 
> > You can find 1Tb disk drives for commodity machines on the web now
> > for $500.
> 
> He asked for reliability above all else.  I can pretty much guarantee
> you won't get that with a $500 1TB drive.
> 
> Storage definitely seems to be a case of "you get what you pay
> for".   We have about a petabyte of SAN at Sanger now, most of which
> is fibrechannel RAID arrays (HP StorageWorks EVA), and some of which
> is SATA or SAS.  The FC disks are much more reliable than SATA, but
> they cost more.   As with all these things, it's a cost benefit
> analysis.  If you want bullet proof, you have to pay for it.  If you
> want cheap, you have to accept lower reliability, and fewer features.
> 
> Tim
> 
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