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In Reply to: RE: How much disk space does AA now eat up? posted by mr grits on October 27, 2009 at 18:22:18
The problem is that it's all RAID storage so it's secure, but you need extra drives that don't count and the drives we have, (SCSI) are expensive. After the migration, we've got 132G free on the new server and 541G on the main server. The db server is the problem eventually as it's only got 33G free and also serves as a backup for the other servers. That backup also goes to an offsite drive, etc. The db server is also now the oldest and should be replaced in the next year or so, which would allow us to use ut as a slave db server which would be great and solve alot of db backup issues.BTW: RAID with hot swap is cool. I have a box of drives for the servers. Recently, the db server had a failure and I didn't have a replacement drive. I bought 3 new ones and it hung in there for the few days to get a new drive. Now, we're got spares. Just pull out the bad drive and away you go.
-Rod
Edits: 10/27/09
both how huge that is by any standards applicable to the past, and how small it is now with cheap terabyte hard drives on sale for under $100.
We do run backups to cheap drives and rotate them offsite, but our servers are a couple years old or older and use SCSI hot swappable RAID arrays. You didn't have the performance on cheap drives at that time. Now the SCSI are becoming obsolete and drives are cheaper if you can find NOS drives. I just got some 73G, 10K U320 drives for $115.
However, even with cheaper driver, rack mount server with ECC memory and RAID arrays aren't alot cheaper though they'll have twice the memory and twice the storage. We need to replace the db server beofr elong and that's a $4K cost if you buy smart from from Dell.
-Rod
I know the cheap drives are not suitable for any type of business use- those are sold for occasional home backups, keeping music and pics on, and stuff like that. Just dime store philosophizin'... of course, the dime store's gone the way of the 512kb hard drive!
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