Getting slightly OT, but could you suggest some reputable local hardware suppliers? I've built my own PCs in the past but in recent years I've found it hard to match the price of suppliers such as Dell, especially for servers.
Tom On Wed, 03 Sep 2003 11:29, Jim Cheetham wrote: > > I don't know about Dell, but other over-hyped PC assemblers (Gateway, > Compaq) chock up their machines with non-standard hardware, to make it > more difficult for you to move away from their platform. Get a generic > box, with industry standard components. You'll be more able to swap out > broken hardware if you do. Adaptec for SCSI controller, 3Com for network > card, that sort of thing. Other manufacturers make good, well supported > hardware too :-) > > Software RAID isn't too bad a choice, it depends on why you want it. > Also consider a journalled filesystem, there's nothing worse than an > emergency reboot followed by a 60-minute fsck cycle on a server ... > > -jim
