RE: No Mirror or Raid

["Walden H. Leverich" <WaldenL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Development can be a "production" operation. How upset do your developers
get if they can't do anything today because the system is down. We have a
170 here for "play" and it's setup in a 3+1 RAID environment. I wouldn't
think of ever running a system w/o raid (that goes for PCs too). 

As for the "educational environment" question. The Long Island System Users
Group (LISUG), of which I'm the president, is a partner w/IBM and SUNY
Farmingdale in the Partners for Education (PIE) program and their machine is
used for development in a educational environment and they run RAID too. We
didn't even consider it an option when we configured the machine.

Find the nearest whiteboard and write 100 times "RAID = GOOD, NO RAID = BAD"
<G>

-Walden

-----Original Message-----
From: oludare [mailto:oludare@ix.netcom.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 2:17 PM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: No Mirror or Raid


Guys,

Just to put this topic in perspective, this box is only for DEVELOPMENT in
an educational environment (Non-for profit).

Dare

----- Original Message -----
From: "MCPARTLAND, Stan" <stanley.mcpartland@bently.com>
To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 1:56 PM
Subject: RE: No Mirror or Raid


> When you consider the cost of 1) identifying and reprocessing lost
> transactions and 2) the downtime cost (productivity, customer service,
etc.)
> this quickly becomes a CON.
>
> Regards,
> Stan
>
> <snip>
>
>   Pro: you save a few dollars because you don't need a RAID controller
>
> <snip>
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