> don't buy ANY hardware untill you can answer those 6 basic questions OK. Will do that.
> or that the vendor says that it will guarantee that xxx-OS > will work on foo hardware combination What is foo? > i know people that ran a $40K/month pager bill because of being paged > > - why the [EMAIL PROTECTED] do you want to be paged ... > - the hardware should NEVER die within reason ... > ( it's okay for it to die of old age at 3 yrs or 5 yrs later...) ;-) I see your point ... however, the reason for this was to be alerted when the disk dies. The server is hosted in a Internet Data Centre and thus no one looks at it. I was hoping the pager would help us in this situation... but I guess not. > with 2 disk ... what's the point of hw raid ??? > - the machine has to come down ... if you are using ide disks Oh! ok. > - the machine should stay down, until the new replacement disk > is sync'd ... and that can be a whole day ...for a full 200GB > disks Ouch! :-) Alvin... Thanks once again for this input. You've helped me in making the decision on what to do... Regards -- Rishi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
