samba via nfs = bad

[Colin Johnston]

and make sure you monitor the mirror status :)

Colin

On 25 Oct 2008, at 23:21, Paul wrote:

> Paul Oldham wrote:
>> Why not just slap a second disk drive of the same spec as the  
>> original in
>> the server box (assuming there's a spare slot) and then configure the
>> drives as a software RAID 1 pair? Minimal hardware cost and simple  
>> enough
>> to do.
>
> agreed,
> definitely the cheapest and quickest option.
> possibly better thing, a hardware raid card installation, two new  
> drives
> to create a mirror, and copying files over would be the next best  
> thing.
>
> BTW, in recent benchmarking, we found the Dell perc6 raid cards in  
> raid5
> gave massively higher performance than a cheap server with native  
> sata -
> about four-fold improvement, using bonnie++ for testing, for  
> reading and
> random I/O, and higher but not massively write speeds.
>
> oh, and of course, to take regular backups :-) and test them!
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