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7,200 RPM HD drive on P3. UBB with 1000 members and around 100 users online, will be converted to vBulletin. I know SCSI is best but any chance I can use the above drive (to get the cost down)?
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I think it would work. Not the very best performance but vBulletin wouldn't break the forum down.Ueli -
should work... if you can get the new Western Digital Caviar 80GB ATA100 8MB cache 7200 rpm drives they're the fastest 7200 drives around right now:: Always Back Up Forum Database + Attachments BEFORE upgrading !
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have you read up on those? i'm curious how the 8MB cache affects performance.Originally posted by eva2000
should work... if you can get the new Western Digital Caviar 80GB ATA100 8MB cache 7200 rpm drives they're the fastest 7200 drives around right nowComment
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they're faster than the previous fastest drives Maxtor 7D40X ATA133 drivesOriginally posted by Jakeman
have you read up on those? i'm curious how the 8MB cache affects performance.
benchmarks i found on another forum for 2 x 100GB WD 1000JB 8MB drives in raid:: Always Back Up Forum Database + Attachments BEFORE upgrading !
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Random access 13.8 ms?
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Western Digital would be a last resort drive. Try Seagate or IBM. Even Maxtor makes a better drive than Western Digital. The MTBF on a WD drive is usually never met.Last edited by Hooper; Mon 3 Jun '02, 5:20am.Comment
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Stay away from IBM drives. Not only have they bailed out on their drive business, there is actually an ongoing lawsuit regarding the high amount of failures on the GXP series.
I have moved to Maxtor and am happy - so far!
Originally posted by Hooper
Western Digital would be a last resort drive. Try Seagate or IBM. Even Maxtor makes a better drive than Western Digital. The MTBF on a WD drive is usually never met.Comment
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My IBM 120GB is having a hard drive failure on a test server used as a file server keeps coming up with file error (I need to repace it). 1 IBM 80GB & 2 IBM 120GB. I was keen to use EIDE for a webserver but after this serious incident I am no longer sure. However, I think Seagate should be alright and my experience with WD is great.
Any of you actually using EIDE on your webserver? Does it work well? Some real world stats would be nice if you run a forum or a site.
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I know Western Digital has released 120 GB 8MB Cache HDD which they advertise "same preformance as SCSI".Comment
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it doesn't matter. scsi doesn't hit your cpu which will always make it superior for servers and such.Originally posted by net ba
"same preformance as SCSI".Comment
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Just got 2 X 73.4GB SCSI 8MB cache Maxtor - they seem to be very good! I think I swap my web server to a SCSI based
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ooooh maxtor atlas 10kiii's!Originally posted by Coreace
Just got 2 X 73.4GB SCSI 8MB cache Maxtor - they seem to be very good! I think I swap my web server to a SCSI based
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I am using them for a file server on our network W2K and I am extremely happy with them in fact better than the IBM's we got.Comment
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