How the hell do these people get jobs in IT? - Page 2

Burble · 18-01-2007, 22:50

2950's, thats the puppies I ordered too. And yes, they do bench very well with Raid 10.

Garp · 18-01-2007, 23:47

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Originally Posted by Burbleflop

SAS = Serial Attached SCSI. The last lot of servers I ordered (probably 6 months ago) came with SAS discs. Bit of a pain really as I've got plenty of U320 SCSI discs sitting spare.

It does have some significant bandwidth advantage, theoretically. Not had a chance to bench a G5 unfortunately (nor am I ever likely to, its rare for NOC to do rebuilds, installs are handled by our Technical Installations Group), so I can't see what its like for myself.
The biggest advantage as far as our TIGgers are concerned, and I presume customers, is that the SAS drives in G5s are the 2.5" jobbies so you can fit a lot more into the same form factor as SCSIs, and thats kinda helpful from both capacity and redundancy perspectives. Our sysadmin are interested in it too for future replacements of various bits of architecture which would benefit from that.

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Originally Posted by Daz

The 2950's I ordered a couple of months ago have SAS. The RAID-10's bench very well.

Work won't touch Dells with a bargepole. Far too many hassles, unreliable architecture, customised controllers that can be a pain under various BSD and *Nix distros... the list goes on. HP for the win apparently, though HPs service quality has gone dramatically downhill since they outsourced it to Phoenix, and I'm sure its not down to the actual engineers themselves who generally seem okay.
Personally at the college I had no hassles with Dell and always found their service to be top notch, but there you have it. Work won't even consider them. We've got a load of old Dells sitting unused in our Quarantine area that they've had hassles with using standard installs. *shrug*

Daz · 18-01-2007, 23:57

Never seen one with BSD so couldn't comment there. No problems with Red Hat/Suse/Gentoo/Debian though in my experience. Maybe I've just been lucky

Davey_Pitch · 19-01-2007, 09:56

We use HP stuff at work pretty exclusively at our School, from desktop workstations to servers. Had no idea what SAS disks were though, not kept up with technology as much as I used to though with the amount of free time I get in work now I should probably make the effort to try and catch up.

Mark · 19-01-2007, 12:22

My Dell box hated Mandrake/Mandriva linux (it's just stop dead after 10-15 minutes) but got on fine with Red Hat. Never got around to trying Gentoo on it.

Oh, and best not mention RAID 10 to Beansprout. He's had two RAID 10 controllers and arrays and both of them self-destructed.

Nutcase · 19-01-2007, 16:02

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Originally Posted by Burbleflop

Bit of a pain really as I've got plenty of U320 SCSI discs sitting spare.

I'll give you a fiver for them

Most of my network and server gear is Compaq, with some modern enough to be HP branded compaq

Ended up with an intel switch as its cheap!

18-01-2007, 23:57	#13
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Davey_Pitch I iz speshul Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Liverpool Posts: 6,296	We use HP stuff at work pretty exclusively at our School, from desktop workstations to servers. Had no idea what SAS disks were though, not kept up with technology as much as I used to though with the amount of free time I get in work now I should probably make the effort to try and catch up. __________________ Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do. It's not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own lights shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

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18-01-2007, 22:50	#11
Burble Rocket Fuel Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 7,826	2950's, thats the puppies I ordered too. And yes, they do bench very well with Raid 10.

19-01-2007, 12:22	#15
Mark Screaming Orgasm Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Newbury Posts: 15,194	My Dell box hated Mandrake/Mandriva linux (it's just stop dead after 10-15 minutes) but got on fine with Red Hat. Never got around to trying Gentoo on it. Oh, and best not mention RAID 10 to Beansprout. He's had two RAID 10 controllers and arrays and both of them self-destructed.