Hi
Can anyone give me a quote for a new file server? The main requirement is that it must support 6 SATA drives; 2 RAID 1 for OS, with 4 RAID 5 for data. A single processor with 4 GB RAM would be good. For the data drives something around 1 TB each.
I've had a quick go at configuring using the Dell website and they want £340 per 1 TB SATA drive; which seems pretty expensive.
Many thanks for taking the time to read and respond.
They won't be SATA at that price they would be SAS. A much better and faster drive. Google it for more info
will get straight onto this for you Altecsole , could you pm me your details for the quoteOriginally Posted by altecsole
Thanks. I'm already aware of SAS, we have them in our Terminal server. The price is definitely for 1TB SATA.
odd, for a file server i would go SAS anyway
Network fileserver isn't going to need as fast disk access so for a fileserver I would go for SATA, for something that needs fast disk access such as a database(driven) server, virtual machine host then have SAS.
Why? Unless you give reasons your responses aren't helpful. Saying 'Google it' doesn't help either.
I suppose if money is no object, then it wouldn't hurt...
... or go for hybrid storage using SSD and SATA from Sun
SAS are much faster, we use them because when you have 500 users writing to them it would prove better. - We have 800 clients so say 200 free, although allot of the time all IT rooms are in full use. I have also found them to be more reliable. They are also cheaper than SCSI
We the google bit. I replied on my iPhone and it isnt easy typing on there so it would save me lots of time.
@FN-GM: I doubt that your hard disks are the bottleneck in that system (unless you have a massive aggregated link into your server).
They seemed to improve this 18 month ago
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