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From: smdspamcatcher on 31 Mar 2008 23:46 My department will be building some redhat enterprise 4 linux boxes (that's the only version that the software that we'll be buying is certified for) in the near future and I've been asked to look at hardware, and it's been a while since I've had to look at linux hardware support. We will be creating and searching through very large (1-2 gigabyte) files, and the overall disk drive throughput is going to be the speed bottleneck for us. Does anyone have any recommendations to get me started, of either drives that they like with good support for linux, or drives or manufacturers to stay away from?
From: General Schvantzkopf on 1 Apr 2008 08:29 On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:46:38 -0700, smdspamcatcher wrote: > My department will be building some redhat enterprise 4 linux boxes > (that's the only version that the software that we'll be buying is > certified for) in the near future and I've been asked to look at > hardware, and it's been a while since I've had to look at linux hardware > support. We will be creating and searching through very large (1-2 > gigabyte) files, and the overall disk drive throughput is going to be > the speed bottleneck for us. Does anyone have any recommendations to get > me started, of either drives that they like with good support for linux, > or drives or manufacturers to stay away from? Drives use standard interfaces so they are all supported, RAID controllers are generally well supported as well. Here is a site for drive reviews, http://www.storagereview.com/
From: ray on 1 Apr 2008 10:58 On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:46:38 -0700, smdspamcatcher wrote: > My department will be building some redhat enterprise 4 linux boxes > (that's the only version that the software that we'll be buying is > certified for) in the near future and I've been asked to look at > hardware, and it's been a while since I've had to look at linux hardware > support. We will be creating and searching through very large (1-2 > gigabyte) files, and the overall disk drive throughput is going to be > the speed bottleneck for us. Does anyone have any recommendations to get > me started, of either drives that they like with good support for linux, > or drives or manufacturers to stay away from? A few years back, faced with a similar issue, we specified SCSI.
From: Trevor Hemsley on 5 Apr 2008 06:16 On Sat, 5 Apr 2008 10:06:17 UTC in comp.os.linux.hardware, Aragorn <aragorn(a)chatfactory.invalid> wrote: > Dell often uses proprietarized hardware, though. Their RAID controllers for > instance are based upon Adaptec cards All the ones I've used are rebadged LSiLogic MegaRAID contrrollers. -- Trevor Hemsley, Brighton, UK Trevor dot Hemsley at ntlworld dot com
From: Aragorn on 5 Apr 2008 08:04
Trevor Hemsley wrote: > On Sat, 5 Apr 2008 10:06:17 UTC in comp.os.linux.hardware, Aragorn > <aragorn(a)chatfactory.invalid> wrote: > >> Dell often uses proprietarized hardware, though. Their RAID controllers >> for instance are based upon Adaptec cards > > All the ones I've used are rebadged LSiLogic MegaRAID contrrollers. Our previous and current PowerEdge servers use the /aacraid/ driver, but then again they are/were older second-hand machines, using a dual Pentium III set-up, so they may have switched to LSI in the meantime. Still, LSI is good stuff, though. :-) -- Aragorn (registered GNU/Linux user #223157) |