[Asterisk-Users] RAID/SCSI/IDE/SATA and a TE405P (or T100P) card. Should I expect problems?

[Rich Adamson]

Always a good idea to work like a large company and create a test
environment that can be used for pre-production validation, etc.


> However, reading all these posts about hardware incompatibiliites and little
> issues with different hardware has gotten me a little concerned about this
> migration/changeover. IRQ's, poor quality controllers, dual processor's,
> raid vs ide, etc. etc. can all affect a call. If the server isn't just
> right, I could encounter issues.
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "mattf" <mattf at vicimarketing.com>
> To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
> Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2004 1:05 PM
> Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] RAID/SCSI/IDE/SATA and a TE405P (or T100P)
> card. Should I expect problems?
> 
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > We use all SCSI PCI card hardware RAIDs on all 4 of our production
> Asterisk
> > servers. They all have Digium quad T1 cards and they all have from 2 to 4
> > T1s hooked up to them. We have had no noticable problems with dropped
> > calls/poor quality.
> >
> > What are you looking to do with this system? what kind of traffic will be
> > going through these 4 T1s?
> >
> > MATT---
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Deon Rodden [mailto:drodden at webunited.net]
> > Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2004 12:41 PM
> > To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> > Subject: [Asterisk-Users] RAID/SCSI/IDE/SATA and a TE405P (or T100P)
> > card. Should I expect problems?
> >
> >
> > I'm confused. In the end, overall, which is best for a T100P (or even a
> > TE405P) card? IDE or SCSI? Raid or No Raid?
> >
> > I was anticpating putting a single Quad-Port TE405P inside a Dell
> PowerEdge,
> > Dual 1.3ghz Processors, SCSI Hard Drive (No Raid).  Was going to run 4
> Full
> > T1 PRI's into it, either all from 1 carrier, or 4 different carriers.
> >
> > Can/Should I expect problems (echo, dropped calls, poor quality, etc.)?
> > Should I hunt down a high end IDE based Server? Or even SATA based server?
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Dana Nowell" <DanaNowell at cornerstonesoftware.com>
> > To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
> > Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2004 11:57 AM
> > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] RAID affecting X100P performance...
> >
> >
> > > In an article on IDE vs. SCSI I read that MTBF numbers for IDE were
> > > frequently caculated at 8 hours on 16 hours off per day (assumes desktop
> > > usage) but SCSI drives were calculated at 24hrs on per day.  So even
> > though
> > > the MTBF numbers look the same ...  The main reason is, reportedly,
> better
> > > quality controller parts and motors.  Before someone asks, no I don't
> > > remember where I read the article (probably via slashdot), you might try
> > > google.
> > >
> > >
> > > At 05:57 AM 7/22/2004 -0700, James H. Cloos Jr. wrote:
> > > >>>>>> "Steven" == Steven Critchfield <critch at basesys.com> writes:
> > > >
> > > >Steven> oddly enough, there isn't much if any difference these days at
> > > >Steven> the physical level. It is just the interface and the set of
> > > >Steven> specs on the interface. SCSI drives usually will give you
> > > >Steven> warning of their problems.
> > > >
> > > >As I hear it, the scsi drives (and the sata drives that are not a
> > > >(integer) multiple of 10 Gigs) do still have better bearings, qa,
> > > >et al than the pata and pata-derrived sata drives.  At least with
> > > >some of the brands....
> > > >
> > > >I expect this will continue, with sata drives being size and cost
> > > >driven and sas quality and reliability driven.
> > > >
> > > >-JimC
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> > > -- 
> > > Dana Nowell     Cornerstone Software Inc.
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