Re: Looking for hardware recommendations...
- From: joseph2k <cooltechblue@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2006 04:59:20 GMT
dnoyeB wrote:
William C wrote:but
It is time to replace my home server. I currently have a P3 800 Mhz
system
with 512MB RAM and a 120 GB HDD running RH 7.2. It has served me well
NV7-133Ris getting pretty old and I need more storage space.
The system is the PDC of my home LAN and servers 5 PCs. (mine, wife,
kids,
media center, laptop) I am a software/web developer and besides serving
files, it also runs a web server and SQL server. These are not public, I
just use them for development and learning purposes.
The media center is my newest addition and it is rapidly sucking up
storage. (I Love My DVR) I want to upgrade to Gigabit Ethernet and
probably a RAID subsystem. I was thinking software RAID is fine, and
considering 4 x 250 GB SATA drives in a RAID 5 configuration to yield
about 750 GB.
For the motherboard I would like to jump up to 2+ GHz. I have seen a
couple of Celeron 2.4 GHz bundles that looked interesting. Of course the
64 Bit dual core systems look interesting too, but I would like to keep
the
price down and it only has to server my little home LAN. I am thinking I
can get away with about 1 GB RAM.
I figure the drives are pretty universal, but usually the CPU, MB and RAM
need to be matched, and usually represent more than 50% of the price.
I am hoping someone can comment on my proposed setup and recommend an MB
that works well with Fedora Core 5.
Im in pretty much the same situation. I had RH9 running on a Abit
on a AMD 1100 chip. I don't have web server but i do ssh and postgres andnew
samba and my email/newsgroups/etc. is on Linux. I develop in Java and use
my server for learning as well. It was software Raid 1.
~January one of my disks started failing and then i realized the other had
dropped out of the array last November...
I value my time so I am ditching software Raid. I want to just put the
disk in, hit a key, and leave. I dont want to be repartitioning it oran
changing which is the boot disk or any of that. Especially since Linux
uptime is so big that by the time it fails I have forgotten everything
about the raid install.
So im hardware raid from now on. I just bought a 3ware 7000 or something
pata raid controller. 2 ide channels. I run raid 1. if it fails I get
email. I shutdown computer, put in new disk, during boot tell it to joinFC5
the array, and away we go...
I also upgraded to a 1800+ chip I took out of my gaming computer. Plus I
changed to Mandriva 2006 which I like much better than Redhat at this
point. I can max out the chip someday but today its more than enough.
was a bitch trying to get a software RAID install going. It just wouldnot
do it. I could install on one disk, then create some raided partitionsraid
which means work if the one disk fails. mandriva didn't like software
either but it got further than FC5 with it. I think it was my new disks.networking.
If you have disks larger than 30GB or something, it gets tricky. Both were
a breeze with the 3ware.
as for which MB i cant say. im still on this old mb with 100Mb
dont know why one would need Gb networking? but if your going new and they
have them no point in turning it away. but i wouldn't pay extra.
good luck.
For servers it is all about reliability. High reliability server mobo's
usually cost 2 to 3 times as much and tend to have less embedded / included
stuff (except disk / raid). A properly configured server should produce
uptimes in excess of 1000 days. (assuming you do dusting while running
about every 50 to 100 days)
--
JosephKK
Gegen dummheit kampfen die Gotter Selbst, vergebens.
--Schiller
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