Hey,
I need to get some large storage long life hdds for my linux server. I was thinking of 400gb ide drives...
Any recommendations?
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Hey,
I need to get some large storage long life hdds for my linux server. I was thinking of 400gb ide drives...
Any recommendations?
If you want long life then you'll need to go professional which normally means less space (and more cost). If so take a look here for a roundup of current drives.
Otherwise a simple raid and some standard hard-drives would be best. If the data is that valuable, buy 3 identical drives, mirror 2 and keep one as a spare for when one dies.
Are you limited to IDE? SATA is becoming the standard these days and there's a lot more/easier/cheaper SATA raid solutions. As for recomendations then I'd say either Samsung or Seagate from personal experience. Been the most reliable drives for me so far.
Becoming standard? IMO its safe to say that IDE is outdated now and SATA is standard.
Best bang for buck at the moment is 320gig. Personally im a western digital man but experiences with seagate and samsung have also been very good.
Samsung Spinpoints for performance and least amount of noise. The Seagate's offer the best warranty though. Samsung offer 3 years and Seagate offer 5 years warranty. With there not being much in it with the performance increase I would go for the Seagates for reliablility.
Well its for my linux bos you see.. and truth be told, i havent dabbled setting up sata drives on it before, plus its debian 3.1 so im not sure what the sata support is like.
all 4 ide channels are used up. Ideally i want to increase the storage space without having to repartion and fluff around.
I use the box as a glftpd server... sigh... i wish i went with LVM now, cus then i could just chuck in some new drives and not have to reconfig glftpd.
I have a Seagate 500gb SATA and 750GB PATA drive in my HTPC, both run like a charm. And a 120gb for the OS and random bits.
So my vote goes to them!
I even have a 5 year old 80gb seagate going strong.
Just update your kernel, plus Debian 4.0 was released a few days ago which includes Linux 2.6.18, which has excellent support for SATA chips, so, just get a cheapass 4 port SATA controller, setup the new array on that, and copy your stuff over, you could use another box to ease the transtitionQuote:
Originally Posted by Rec0il
Yeah i have downloaded the latest debian dvds. My problem is this, how to go about the whole transition. I need to plan this carefully as I dont want o f*ck it up.
Should I consider using raid ?
Ideally I would like to have lvm setup, but how to go about setting up lvm when you have none matching hdds that already contain data.
*gah*
I've tried LVM on top of mdraid in the past, it gave me nothing but headaches and the filesystems kept crapping themselves.
If you can afford a real hardware SATA RAID controller do it, then all you need is LVM by itself and a flexible fielsystem and you'd be sorted.
Another point, EVMS is a lot easier to work with than all the commandline userspace volume management tools, something you might be interested with playing around on :)
I haven't heard much of the samsungs spinpoints causing any troubles. I do like the 320Gb version myself :)