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carterjames1988
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 | | 05/20/2006 5:21 AM |
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| bdesmond
Posts:346
| | 05/20/2006 5:32 AM |
| If it™s very high write volume you may see issues, but
otherwise you should be fine.
Not sure why you would need a firmware upgrade, but, you can
always grab the Proliant support pack from HPQ and let it tell you what
versions are current for your HW.
Thanks,
Brian Desmond
brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
c - 312.731.3132
From: ActiveDir-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:ActiveDir-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of James Carter
Sent: Saturday, May 20, 2006 1:16 PM
To: ActiveDir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ActiveDir] OT: Disk Capacity
Hi,
I have a Compaq ML370 Proliant Tower Server, our lab
department are creating digital images that are 30mb per pic so I need lots of
storage space.
I am thinking of putting in 4x300gb Ulta320 SCSI drives in a
RAID5 set, does anyone see any performance problems with this?
Does anyone have any experience if I need to upgrade
any firmware?
thanks
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| amulnick
Posts:127
| | 05/20/2006 7:31 AM |
| Pictures tend to be blobs. As such, your performance hit could easily come during the writes because of the parity check of a RAID 5 volume. RAID 5 is usually a good read configuration and as such is often used for DB applications heavy write scenarios. Some file/print apps like it as well however because of the random nature of file/print. If you start to notice some performance issues related to uploads, check there after looking at the anti-virus and logs.
Al
On 5/20/06, Brian Desmond wrote:
If it's very high write volume you may see issues, but otherwise you should be fine.
Not sure why you would need a firmware upgrade, but, you can always grab the Proliant support pack from HPQ and let it tell you what versions are current for your HW.
Thanks,Brian Desmond
brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
c - 312.731.3132
From:
ActiveDir-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ActiveDir-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
James CarterSent: Saturday, May 20, 2006 1:16 PMTo: ActiveDir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ActiveDir] OT: Disk Capacity
Hi,
I have a Compaq ML370 Proliant Tower Server, our lab department are creating digital images that are 30mb per pic so I need lots of storage space.
I am thinking of putting in 4x300gb Ulta320 SCSI drives in a RAID5 set, does anyone see any performance problems with this?
Does anyone have any experience if I need to upgrade any firmware?
thanks
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| listmail
Posts:428
| | 05/23/2006 4:01 AM |
| What are you looking for? Redundancy, speed, pure capacity?
If you are just looking for a place to stick all of these
images and you want fast access to them and redundancy isn't important (i.e.
your daily backups are good enough) you could go with a stripe set. If you need
the redundancy then I would probably be looking at RAID-5 as well, unless as the
others mentioned you need really good write capability. Anything besides those
two will drammatically hit your capacity.
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From: ActiveDir-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:ActiveDir-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of James
CarterSent: Saturday, May 20, 2006 1:16 PMTo:
ActiveDir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxSubject: [ActiveDir] OT: Disk
Capacity
Hi,
I have a Compaq ML370 Proliant Tower Server, our lab department are
creating digital images that are 30mb per pic so I need lots of storage
space.
I am thinking of putting in 4x300gb Ulta320 SCSI drives in a RAID5 set,
does anyone see any performance problems with this?
Does anyone have any experience if I need to upgrade any
firmware?
thanks
Yahoo!
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rates. | | | |
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