Dorn, Can you give me some details on this linux md driver you mentioned?
Also, you say not to scrap the SATA drives, is this because you think I can use them with FC1 or because you think I should try Debian? I really don't want to venture away from Fedora at the moment for a few reasons. Thanks! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dorn Hetzel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 4:07 PM Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Hardware opinions? > On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 02:17:47PM -0600, Me wrote: > > Hello, I am trying to build up a pretty meaty Asterisk box after doing our initial testing and playing on a 1ghz system. > > > > Right now I have decided on a prebuilt system which I normally don't do but thought it seemed like a good deal. > > > > I have included the initial specs below, I will be adding another 1 GB of RAM for a total of 2 GB. > > > > My first question is regarding the serial ATA drives... I will be using Fedora and considering FC1 seems to be the smartest of the builds when it comes to the digium hardware, will I have to scrap the SATA drives because FC1 doesn't support them or do I have bad information? > > > > If I need to scrap the SATA drives and let's say I didn't care about the Raid functionality, would you folks think that IDE drives would be fine or would the speed of SCSI really make much of a difference when it comes to Asterisk? If speed of drives does matter, can someone tell me why Asterisk might need fast drives vs. say 7200 IDE drives? > > > > Next and last question is, how many simultaneous calls do you folks figure I can run on this in the following two scenarios: > > > > 1- All clients would be using SIP devices like SPA-2000's and all calls would originate/terminate using an IAX termination partner. > > 2- All clients would be using IAX like Asterisk or an IAXy and all calls would originate/terminate using an IAX termination partner. > > > > > > Here are the specs: > > > > a.. Dual (2) Intel Xeon 2.66GHz CPUs w/ HT Technology > > b.. 533MHz Front Side Bus > > c.. 1GB PC2100 DDR ECC Registered Memory > > d.. Two (2) 120GB SATA 7200RPM Hard Drives with 8MB Cache > > e.. 52X CD-RW Drive w/Burning Software > > f.. 3.5" 1.44MB Floppy Drive > > g.. ATI Rage XL with 8MB Onboard > > h.. Onboard RAID controller > > i.. (2) Intel Ethernet Controllers (1x1000BT Gigabit & 1x10/100) > > j.. 2U Rackmount Chassis w/ 500-Watt Power Supply > > > > Thanks! > > > > You don't need to scrap the SATA drives, they are very nice. > You might want to give Debian a try. > Don't use the "RAID" mode on the motherboard as it's likely > "fake raid", instead use linux md driver for software raid, > it's smoking fast for SATA drives and on my 3.2ghz box > barely scratches the CPU resyncing. > > -Dorn > > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
