> I'd say the exact opposite - I want RAID cards because once
> they're set up you just see a single logical disk, don't
> need to handle the install specially, can easily be booted
> off, and they make hot-swapping disks very easy. Software
> RAID is OK, but it's more faff, especially in the case of a
> disk failure.
>
never had a problem and the servers configuration is already set up to
create raid1. It litterally 4 or 5 lines in the kickstart.
>> Said that I'd like to understand if gridpp is going to buy these in one
>> order for everyone or if we just have to conform to the model.
>>
> The latter - everyone's DRI funding bids were modified to
> include money dedicated to buying the appropriate boxes,
> so each site will buy them themselves, so all the warranty
> stuff etc. works nice and easily.
I know each site got the money but considering this concerted effort the
act of buying could have gone through gridpp like they wanted to do with
the gridpp money.
cheers
alessandra
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