Hmm...this is worth considering. Here is the sticking point though. They want an SSD based server. A real server rated SSD is very expensive. They want them in raid 1, and they want 1tb capacity, so this makes it very expensive when a basic (real) server would otherwise be very affordable. There is no point in getting server grade hardware and skimping on the SSDs, so I priced out a regular, completely skimped rig instead. Its all or nothing. No point in having a real server with a massive weak link in the form of consumer grade SSDs.
lol you guys are funny. I priced out a simple i5 box, onboard video with a 1tb 850evo. Simple. It will be fine. They wanted a raid 1 setup, but I think a single SSD will be fine. Relax, we got Carbonite bitmches.
Most? You're talking Dell or HP or a similar vendor. Lots of server hardware comes with no such support.
Small business with one box, supported by your brother in law or the local high school kid. Probably not a lot of need for 24/7 on site support. The server goes down, you go fishing for the day.
Whatever man. I'm just the designer. I'm wearing an IT hat today though.
Yeah if the server goes down, the boss checks out the carbonite back up, which is done daily I think, or possibly more frequently, and I stop doing what I'm doing long enough to either fix the stupid rig or order a new one. It would suck a little, but we'd just fix it.
We may do the raid thing. That would be a form of local back up. At least its better than no backup at all locally.
this is probably why you should keep your designer hat on.
Repeat after all us: RAID is not backup!
Oh I agree. Believe me when I say I don't care for this shit. I build one gaming rig every few years and don't give a damn in between those times. I have an IT friend and he talks to me like I care. It puts me in a coma.
RAID IS NOT BACK UP. There, I said it. But I swear I thought that's what raid 1 was for.
Oh I agree. Believe me when I say I don't care for this shit. I build one gaming rig every few years and don't give a damn in between those times. I have an IT friend and he talks to me like I care. It puts me in a coma.
RAID IS NOT BACK UP. There, I said it. But I swear I thought that's what raid 1 was for.
RAID1 is for redundancy - so you can have a drive fail and not have downtime.
I was going to say you probably won't have SNMP set up to alert you for hardware failures either - but it doesn't really matter since any hardware failure is going to bring you hard down. :awe:
We have a Dell 1655 Blade from 2003 that is still up and running just fine. :thumbsup:
Basic computers are pretty reliable though. I can't remember the last time a computer has actually broken on me. I'm not sure if its ever happened. This little file server I'm building will probably see less activity than the rig I'm NEFFING on right now.
Glad I'm not the only one who caught that!
When I worked for the cable co, we rolled out an online backup option. It had unlimited storage and really wasn't a bad deal...except that they made us pitch it hard to every single person we talked to. Well some photographer guy called in having problems. It seems his drive had been backing up for over 3 days and wasn't anywhere close to being done. Turns out he had hundreds of gigs of pics he was backing up. His upload speed was somewhere around 1Mb, so he was looking at somewhere around 700 hours before everythign would be backed up. And that was if he didn't do anything else!
Redundant Array of Independent Disks
Simply, RAID 1 means that if one disk fails you can keep running on the remaining disk until you get the failed disk replaced. According to the instructions for your hardware, once you replace the failed disk the RAID schema will synchronise the new disk with the old.
If something happens to the system while that is occurring, that's when a recent backup is handy (and lifesaving) to have.
That's for the weak. His boss will really appreciate the blazing speed of RAID0 SSDs. If he goes with RAID0, he'll get a promotion for sure.Redundant Array of Independent Disks
Simply, RAID 1 means that if one disk fails you can keep running on the remaining disk until you get the failed disk replaced. According to the instructions for your hardware, once you replace the failed disk the RAID schema will synchronise the new disk with the old.
If something happens to the system while that is occurring, that's when a recent backup is handy (and lifesaving) to have.
Can I get an external hard drive that auto backs up during the day? Like a scheduled backup thing? That way if this cheap gaming mobo decides to frag itself and something goes wonkey with the drives, at least we can buy a new rig real quick and have the data to dump back on there. Might be faster than carbonite. We can use carbonite if the building catches on fire or something I suppose, or if we lose the external drive. This all seems so unlikely though.
Can I get an external hard drive that auto backs up during the day? Like a scheduled backup thing? That way if this cheap gaming mobo decides to frag itself and something goes wonkey with the drives, at least we can buy a new rig real quick and have the data to dump back on there. Might be faster than carbonite. We can use carbonite if the building catches on fire or something I suppose, or if we lose the external drive. This all seems so unlikely though.
Like I said, if downtime doesn't cost you money, then it doesn't really matter.
raid + local backup + online backup = sufficient
That's for the weak. His boss will really appreciate the blazing speed of RAID0 SSDs. If he goes with RAID0, he'll get a promotion for sure.
Can I get an external hard drive that auto backs up during the day? Like a scheduled backup thing? That way if this cheap gaming mobo decides to frag itself and something goes wonkey with the drives, at least we can buy a new rig real quick and have the data to dump back on there. Might be faster than carbonite. We can use carbonite if the building catches on fire or something I suppose, or if we lose the external drive. This all seems so unlikely though.
I don't think it would actually cost us money. If I happened to be in the middle of time critical project, then that could be a pain in the ass. In that instance, I can grab the files from carbonite or our local backup if we use an external backup drive and just work from my desktop to finish the project. That would be some really bad timing though and is unlikely. We aren't as critically dependent on this stuff as a larger company would be.
If they're currently on a Pentium 4 like moonbogg says, they'll appreciate the blazing speed of a 10K HDD, never mind an SSD.