Kirk Bocek wrote: > > > Bryan J. Smith <b.j.smith at 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