on 3-14-2008 6:31 AM Therese Trudeau spake the following: >> That is true, buy high quality stuff up front for fewer problems down >> the road. Not a sure bet, but a better one. In the half dozen systems >> I've been running at home for the past several years none of them >> have suffered a hardware failure of any kind(fortunately). I've been >> running PC Power and Cooling power supplies for about 9 years now, >> really high quality PSUs(last one I bought was about 4 years ago, can't >> speak for their quality now). > > So for a top quality power supply for a mission critical desktop machine, which > brand(s) would you reccomend? One of the towers I have is a Thermaltake > Xaser 3 with lots of room, and I just bought a new Antec Sonata III tower > with a 500 watt PS. > >> So BBU is certainly a nice thing to have but at least in my >> experience isn't absolutely critical. > > Then for a Mission critical desktop machine, if you had to make > a choice, would you go with a good quality UPS and/or redundant > power supplies, or a BBU instead? > >> Of course for absolutely critical things I don't use server-based >> RAID anyways. Multiple redundant controllers, multiple redundant >> paths(to both the disks and to the hosts), is the way to go(assuming >> your application(s) aren't built to be able to run on something >> like a distributed file system). I've seen that some of the >> latest HP servers have dual ported SAS disks, which sounds pretty >> neat. I assume they still only have one controller though. > > As an alternative to RAID1 for a mission critical desktop machine @ > home, what would you reccomend? Maybe a bare metal restore solution > able to restore to different hardware, (i.e. if a motherboard dies and drive > crashes due to power spike or some catastrophe, I'm screwed > if I can't find the exact same make - model)? > Explain your definition of a mission critical desktop. Does the entire enterprise stop functioning if this desktop stops? I am THE tech support for my company, but my desktop could die right now, and although I would be heartbroken and a little peeved, I could just fire up my lappy and get back to work in a few minutes. I usually have 2 desktops running, just in case I need to put out fires while my main desktop is doing the windows reboot dance. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 250 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080314/37f4be25/attachment-0005.sig>