said:
>So a motherboard that has four adapters (8 drives) plus two plug-in cards
>(8 more drives) will give me 16 drives. Or a motherboard with two
>adapters plus three plug-in cards, I just hate using up all the slots.
It's not big deal if the box is a dedicated file server. Also, you might
want to consider a PCI expansion box. Keep in mind that the PCI bus is
designed to be expandable.
>Should I instead look at Gigabit Ethernet to a dedicated box holding the
>drives?
That's what I would do for many applications. It depends on what problem
you are trying to solve.
>I've never seen a benchmark on this but I know the industry has
>been pushing networked data storage for a couple of years so it must work
>fairly well.
Pushing? Using is more like it. For example my Paso customer has the app
server and the database server on different boxes and the performance is
just fine. It's a typical setup. Even mysql clients talk to the server
via TCP/IP.
Steven
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