building new server, hardware ideas?

joakim_at_nordberg.org
Date: 11/18/03

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    Hi ppl,

    I'm going to build a new server for a small company that are going to sell
    music and have a very tight budget. But I'm not going to sacrifice
    stability and performance. -Easy?

    Alrigt, normaly I build them on Redhat since there most vendors of disc
    controllers, net dito and so on are only providing with drivers for Redhat
    or Suse. Clients are always Debian (I guess most people do the oppisite).

    Requirements:
    2 x 2.8 GHz XEON, 512 KB
    2 GB Ram (should preferably be possible to upgrade to 6 GB but 4 GB is
    acceptable)
    Raid 1 for system minimun 4 GB and database minimum 16 GB
    Raid 5 for filestorage minimum 200 GB

    My quetion is: what should I buy since I would like to use a vanilla
    kernel from Debian (yes I can loose performance and so on, but it helps us
    if we have to do a disaster recovery)

    What hardware should I buy?
    Raidtools för root disc, swap? or hardware raid, which one?
    Filesystem for system, db, filestorage? ext3, reiserfs or xfs (i like
    reiserfs but xfs is really nice on SGI, but needs to compile in to the
    kernel)
    IDE,SATA or SCSI or mixed?
    Which SATA controller works fine under Debian? Highpoint RocketRAID 1820 -
    PCI-X
    Does HOT-Swap works on SATA/IDE

    Sorry for this long email but I hope and guess all you ppl hav good ideas!

    Cheers,
    Joakim Nordberg

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