[Pc_Support] Re: Backup methodology -- centralize for lower TCO

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 11:45 -0400, Damien McKenna wrote:
> Grand.  Any reason not to use a $20 el cheapo card?

Driver/controller/drive incompatibility.
3Ware pretty much gives you piece-of-mind for $100, worth it.
You also have hot-plug and RAID-1 options (I highly recommend RAID-1).

> ... if your machine has internal connectors.  Ours don't.

I meant from the 3Ware card.

> Nope, both tape drives are external, all of the internal disk drives  
> are on a separate channel.

Not good.  You're running your _entire_ SCSI bus at Single-Ended (SE)
40MBps speed, with _no_ Low Voltage Differential (LVD) 160MBps speed.


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