RE: OT: USB/Firewire external hard drives for 10g RAC testing - any recommendations?

I don't quite understand the fascination with trying to make Firewire drives work with RAC, even as a test. Will your production be using Firewire drives? I suppose if this were a home/hobby setup... A brief look on cdw.com shows a RAC Firewire setup with 2 controllers, cables, and a LaCie 40GB drive for about $175. A similar SCSI setup is $410 (or $350, if you want to save the cost of the external inclosure by powering the drive with an extension from one of the RAC server's PSs.) Or boost the price by $250 if you want the guaranteed trouble-free Adaptec 29160LP SCSI cards.

The SCSI variant will cost you (your company) as little as $175 more, will be much closer to a production setup, and will be much more trouble-free.

My $.02,
Rich

Rich Jesse                        System/Database Administrator
rich.jesse_at_quadtechworld.com      QuadTech, Sussex, WI USA

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Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 9:41 AM
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Subject: Re: OT: USB/Firewire external hard drives for 10g RAC testing - any recommendations?

http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/hunter_rac.html#FireWire%20Technology

That has a link to firewire drives that work

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