Kirk Bocek wrote:
Bryan J. Smith b.j.smith@ieee.org wrote:
Do you understand what NCQ does? It allows an intelligent drive to queue for the bus, because the bus is dumb.
So what do you think an intelligent strorage controller does? (light bulb!)
Yes, I understand. I also don't have an unlimited budget. If I can get most of the benefit without needing a $300-800 add-on, that's a big plus.
A 3ware 8000 should be < 300$
Put in an out-of-band GbE card or iSCSI HBA instead. Trust me on this, you do _not_ want USB or FireWire.
I conceptually understand iSCSI, but how would I use a GbE NIC in a backup solution? Don't forget that a backup solution would depend on hot-pluggability. That's why I was thinking of USB/IEEE-1394.
I don't really know, but you could get a pretty cheap NAS with a gigabit nic to do your backups instead of using USB/Firewire.
I like the HP DL385 (2-way) and DL585 (4-way) servers.
Cool, I will take a look at HP's offerings. Do you have any motherboards alone that you would recommend?
Kirk Bocek