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jcrouse:
I am an IT Manager for a living, both Microsoft and Compaq (HP now) certified. I have lots of experience with RAID. I run RAID5 on ALL my servers at work and Mirroring on my FTP servers. It's also hot swappable with the controller cards I use. I agree that it's the way to go.

John

tivogre:

--- Quote from: jcrouse on July 24, 2005, 12:46:10 pm ---I am an IT Manager for a living, both Microsoft and Compaq (HP now) certified. I have lots of experience with RAID. I run RAID5 on ALL my servers at work and Mirroring on my FTP servers. It's also hot swappable with the controller cards I use. I agree that it's the way to go.

John

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Yeah... I could have gone hot-swappable with the controller card I used, but it wasn't worth the extra expense (~$400) to me.  It's not the end of the world in my house if I have to turn off the server for an hour.

In a more "real world" application though, I could EASILY see it worth the expense.

jcrouse:
The hot swappability is nice in business class servers. The even have hot swappable I/O (PCI) cards. THere is a utility that kills power to the slot, you swap the card and then return power. Pretty neat stuff. The also do the same with redundant swappable power supplies.

John

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