[Savannah-hackers] Re: subversions hda disk (continued)

[Jeff Bailey]

On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 10:14:16PM +0100, Mathieu Roy wrote:

> As I said in private to Loic, if a new machine is bought, it would be
> good to get SCSI HD instead of IDE, and to get more RAM (normally a
> webserver shouldnt swap at all).

The RAM is always a good idea, but I find that SCSI is rarely worth the
price.  2 80 GB IDEs are cheap, and software raid works quite well.  At
work we have hot swap IDE cages (I think they're like $30 each, but I
haven't looked at the prices in many years).  We don't use them for hot
swap, but it means that the machine only needs to be turned off for 30
seconds while we swap one drive one for another.  Then the mirror can be
rebuilt with the machine live.

Of course, if the machine is donated to us, then it takes it out of our
hands. =)

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