Re: best hardware spec for fileserver

2005-10-10 Thread Alexey Lobanov
Hello all. On 10/10/05 13:04, Mariusz Kruk wrote: > Jeffrey Alsip napisał(a): > >> I hope you are referring to a hardware RAID (firmware running inside a >> seperate RAID controller) and not some form of software RAID, as those >> things are crap. > Can you back this oppinion up in any way? Esp

Re: best hardware spec for fileserver

2005-10-10 Thread Mariusz Kruk
Jeffrey Alsip napisał(a): I hope you are referring to a hardware RAID (firmware running inside a seperate RAID controller) and not some form of software RAID, as those things are crap. Can you back this oppinion up in any way? Especialy by some test results? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: best hardware spec for fileserver

2005-10-07 Thread Jeffrey Alsip
To get the "drive mirroring" that you describe, you want to use RAID 1. I hope you are referring to a hardware RAID (firmware running inside a seperate RAID controller) and not some form of software RAID, as those things are crap. In addition to the RAID 1 setup, you want a server that allows you

Re: best hardware spec for fileserver

2005-10-07 Thread Mariusz Kruk
askar k napisał(a): Could anybody adive me the best hardware configuration for fileserver. There is no such thing. You always have to take into consideration many factors. What do you want from the server, how much money you can spend and so on. Do I need to have Raid-5 or smth like that t

best hardware spec for fileserver

2005-10-07 Thread askar k
Could anybody adive me the best hardware configuration for fileserver. Do I need to have Raid-5 or smth like that to be able to backup the 1st hard disk to the 2nd one to be my server crash free? I have to set up fileserver at my work. Is samba the best solution for that? Thanks, askar