[NTLUG:Discuss] Distro strengths

[David Stanaway]

Just a note of caution on your rational for using RAID.

RAID should not be considered as a replacement for doing regular 
backups. If you delete the file, it is just as gone on RAID as it is on 
a single disk. Of course you probably were thinking of having a hot disk 
in the system which could be mounted in place of a corrupted disk to 
keep you online with minimal downtime while you scratch around your 
backups to verify.


Todd Robinson wrote:
> Before this thread goes any further, let me state that, at this time, I 
> am purely looking for the best distro to be a file server + MySQL [+ 
> print server] [+ intranet (not internet) server (Apache / Tomcat / 
> ...)]. I'm also looking for info on how robust SATA support is as well 
> as ideas on RAID (SATA or EIDE). The focus is not on throughput bu 
> rather fail-safe measures. I am also considering the low-tech approach 
> of having cron jobs copy to another HD(s) for backup, should RAID not be 
> practical. Something that is at least 400G space (maybe with potential 
> to double later).
> 
> I am _not_ looking for the best in heavy high-speed graphical (yet).
> =TR=
>> Do you know of any studies, web pages, etc that talk about the current 
>> distros in regards to their strengths? For example, for heavy high-speed 
>> graphical [...] is better suited.
>>
>> I am thinking of putting together a box that is a file server, MySQL 
>> server, maybe print server and intranet server (Apache / Tomcat / ...). 
>> Perhaps with RAID.
>>
>> How is SATA reliability doing? Cautions about SATA RAID (should I go 
>> with EIDE RAID?)? H/W vs S/W RAID?
>>   
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