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What would you do?

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  • 04-01-2008 12:54pm
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    Khannie
    Registered Users Posts: 37,485 ✭✭✭✭


    I'm a bit confused about what to do.......

    My current scenario is this: I have 3 x 750G hdd's in raid 5 (giving me 1.5TB with redundancy) for storage. I'm more than happy with this.

    I also have (temporarily) 2 x 200G samsungs in raid 0 for my OS.

    I bought a SAS controller card + cable + 146GB, 15K rpm, 2ms access time hdd (sexy!) but.....I subsequently discovered that the controller card is known not to work with my motherboard. X-( It is a great controller though....supports up to 8 SATA or SAS drives or a combination of both and has 256M of cache.

    I have the option of buying a 16G SSD for very reasonable money. This will easily hold my OS + other stuff.

    So....absorb the cost of a motherboard switch and go SAS?
    Sell the SAS kit and go SSD?
    Something else?


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    Khannie
    Registered Users Posts: 37,485 ✭✭✭✭Khannie


    You all suck. :P

    I'm selling the SAS drive and controller. It'll be on adverts later after I've tested it in a server here in work.


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    Cuddlesworth
    Registered Users Posts: 13,995 ✭✭✭✭Cuddlesworth


    Had I seen this I would have said swap the motherboard, SSD drives are good, but not SAS good.

    BTW, this whole thing sounds very Sassy.


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    Khannie
    Registered Users Posts: 37,485 ✭✭✭✭Khannie


    krazy_8s wrote: »
    Had I seen this I would have said swap the motherboard, SSD drives are good, but not SAS good.

    Noes! What a cat to throw among my pigeons!
    krazy_8s wrote: »
    BTW, this whole thing sounds very Sassy.

    :D

    Great word.


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