RE: [K12OSN] Hardware question for Terminal Server

Stephen Liu (satimis@writeme.com)
Fri, 09 Aug 2002 19:41:32 +0800


Hi Matt,

Thanks for your prompt response in detail

At 07:10 AM 8/9/2002 -0400, Matt Loretitsch wrote:
>1.)  This depends how you RAID.  If you use a cheap hardware controller, you
>might have to stop the server, go into the bios, and rebuild from there.
>Then boot back up.

How to classify which is a reliable RAID controller for my use?  Weighing 
on price?

>3.)  Run RAID 5 (if you can afford it) on a good controller

Noted with thanks.

>5.... A balance of speed and safety.
>
>Please note this is a slanted view from a corporate worker who used to work
>in education.
>
>Just take into consideration what data is valuable and what you can simply
>re-install if need be.  You could run two boxes... Mirror your user data
>RAID 1 on one box, and run terminal server RAID 0 to get some speed on
>another box.

How to config the mirroring setup, 2 RAID boxes each with its own OS, 
running on the same network.  Are the clients linked to RAID 0 box?

RAID 1 ---> RAID 0 --> Clients
                        |
Internet  <-------

Thanks in advance.

Stephen




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