Best HDD Configuration for a Server?

[kayson]

I have two drives I can use for my server: 1TB and 250GB. What's the optimum configuration for speed if I want to serve files via ftp/http?

[johan851]

The FTP or HTTP bandwidth is probably going to bottleneck unless you have a really fast upload. The 1TB will probably be marginally faster because of its higher density, but it probably won't be noticeable. Summary: probably doesn't matter.

[PhysX]

YEah doesn't really matter.

[kayson]

Figured as much. Thanks.

[dropadrop]

The best layout is to use one of them for backups (unless that is otherwise managed). Try to figure out a way to recover quickly if the main disk fails.

[rollincoaster]

I have two drives I can use for my server: 1TB and 250GB. What's the optimum configuration for speed if I want to serve files via ftp/http?

What's the specs of each drive? Put the one that has a faster RPM / bigger cache as primary and use the other for backups.

If they're the same specs wise then don't matter. If you're concerned on I/O then buy another 250 or 1TB and use RAID 1 or better yet buy the velicraptors or SCSI / SAS drives.

[Shelnutt2]

How important is the data? I see two options, use the 250 a primary and create .tar.lzma's of the entire drive however frequent you like to the 1tb, or use the 1tb as primary and backup the important data as a .tar.lzma to the 250.

Are you using linux? I can give you a basic idea of how to do the backups.

ddrescue if=/dev/sdx | lzma -9 > disk.img.lzma

[Mr.Guvernment]

Unless you have a 50MB or faster Inet connection, either or, no difference.

[kayson]

The 250GB drive is being used as a backup. I just manually back up the important files every now and then. Nothing is so critical that it'd be a disaster if I lost it.